I'd be more worried about the amount that is being borrowed. If I lived in Regina.
Excellent point Chad, and welcome!!
Here is Stoon I see people demanding more and more and more for less and less and less. That would be great, but economics just dont support that want. All things go up, including taxes.
I thought when we voted the SaskParty in we were getting lower municipal taxes, not higher. Did I not hear them correctly? Why is the SaskParty raising my taxes?
Maybe Brad didn't really mean what he said. Did you read the fine print?
Pardon my French, but I am beacoup pissed off!
How many homeowners entire municipal tax bill would it take to pay the increase in pay to Saskparty Ministerial assistants?
ayy-yayy-yayyyy!!!!!
"Why is the SaskParty raising my taxes?"
Because sometime tory (welcome by the way), the Sask Party is a socialist party, no different than the Saskatchewan NDP, except in style.
"How many homeowners entire municipal tax bill would it take to pay the increase in pay to Saskparty Ministerial assistants?"
Excellent question Travis!
one day the provincial government (and federal) will start sharing all that tax money with cities....until than taxes will always be going up, up, up.
Saskatoon alone is receiving about 25-30 million less per year (when converted to today's dollar) than it did in 1990, yet it is responsible for far more services than in 1990 (as are most cities thanks to the downloading in the 90s started by the federal government). Again John, you say they should have cut something but you don't give any examples!
The issue here is not about SP MA's or other B.S. It's about the rights of taxation in the Canadian Constitution. It is clear to me that the lefties and commies on this blog do not understand the division of power in Canada. Funny, because most of these people are political science people and should know better but personal views and bias ALWAYS skew their vision.
Why do we not debate the division of power and what rights the province, feds and municipalities have on taxation. Until the situation addressed, we will continue to have leftist mayors like Doug Archer raising taxes because his NDP puppet masters told him to raise them because THEY were shirking their responsibilities to their electorate.
Where should the province and municipalities begin? Any thoughts?
"Again John, you say they should have cut something but you don't give any examples!"
Sean, the fat that could be cut from municipal government is self-evident. For example, does the City of Regina really need a department that deals with Art and Culture? Regina never did any restructuring or housecleaning in the 1990s, so the city is LONG overdue for an audit of some kind.
The city has done this audit, it was called the core services review. If your going to cut, I would start with the $3 million extra being spent in the Mayor's and City Manager offices.
Putting D in the debate- the facts are lefty Doug Archer raised taxes less in his 12 year tenure then Pat Fiacco has in his 8 years. This with less grant money and during a recession. Just something to chew on.
Any money that can be chopped from the city budget is fine by me.
That only works if both people intend on Tango'ing. If one only knows how to Tango and the other only knows how to Rumba things get complicated real fast.
Ignore above post, wrong section. Duh me.
Doug Archer started the business tax reduction program in Regina. To uimply otherwise is simply to display SaskParty partisanship.
Come on people....get a grip on life! Doung Archer raised taxes the entire time he was here. I guess if you think that borrowing money on future taxes isn't a form of taxation, then I guess you're right but guess what...it's taxing the future for today's gains. Fiacco is mopping up the mess from Archer and his buddy Romanow.
Did the province not cut transfer payments significantly in the 1990's? If you say 'no' then yer lying.
Hmmmm....less transfer dollars from the province means more taxation for the ratepayer.
It comes back to division of powers and taxation people.
Doug Archer raised taxes by about 15% over 12 years, and cut the business tax. Pat Fiacco has surpassed that total in 8 years, with grants twice the amount and a booming economy. Fiacco created this mess from the beginning and continues today by borrowing millions of dollars.
Transfers were not cut as much as frozen by Romanow's government, but that still shows Archer's ability to keep property taxes down in comparison to today.
You seem to like to go on about division of powers. However, I am not sure your point. The provinces powers are outlined in the Constitution Act 1867(BNA), and municipalities are subordinate to the provinces and have certain provincial powers passed on to them. They are more a crown corp then another level of government.
Do you think that municipalities need more powers?
Chad...the guys who campaigned on the raising taxes (unsuccesfully, thank jeebus).
Tuco- I was a candidate for the CCFR and we did state that property taxes should increase with inflation. We also were opposed to the increase in residential rates and decrease in multi-family dwellings rates. The voters chose to believe the ones who said, they wouldn't raise taxes, and now taxes have been increased at twice the rate of inflation for the last two years.
I can hold my head up and say, I was honest and would have saved taxpayers money.
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