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Old Posted Apr 8, 2009, 9:30 PM
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The rumour is that Bronco is leaning more towards staying. That's probably a good thing, since Council already is suffering from a right-left split exacerbated by grandstanding over meaningless symbolic issues, and an ideologue running the show would only make matters worse.

Re: taxation, Council is taking heat because taxes and user fees have generally been on an upward trajectory beyond the rate of inflation for quite some time. Comparatively this latest budget (which does suck by the way) is the first tax hike of any kind in quite some time. Also, the Province is sort of hiking taxes by stealth - since most people equate Provincial tax with income taxes - while people consider municipal taxation to be property taxes. If anything the masses will blame the city even more because they're too dumb to understand that the education portion of their property taxes goes to the Province.