Mayor Miller Cannot Be A Complete Fiscal Moron

Notwithstanding his educational credentials he just doesn't seem to want get into the ballgame. Let's start looking at less expensive ways to provide services, it is called contracting out, let's start honoring agreements that council makes, let's stop catering to the social in-activists and leeches, you want to eat at my table and sleep under my roof you are going to have to contribute time to keep the city clean,let's take a hardline when it comes to labour negotiations, etc.

GST aid makes cents for city
By BRIAN GRAY, SUN MEDIA

Mayor David Miller gave his two cents worth on securing one cent of the GST for funding cities across the country.

"Toronto alone sends $6.6 billion a year more to the federal treasury than it gets back," Miller told a luncheon crowd on the first day of the Toronto Summit yesterday.

"Our citizens do not object to paying our fair share, we know those dollars are used to finance health care and education. But we also know that more of that money has to come back to our city. We need to keep Toronto strong if we're going to keep Canada prosperous."

The One Cent Now campaign -- with lapel pins, bumper stickers and a website (www.onecentnow.ca) -- has the support of other municipal leaders across the country. Miller was joined by the mayors of Sarnia, Hamilton, Brampton, Mississauga, Oshawa and Aurora.

"It's not the total solution to the problem," said Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion. "We should be getting social costs ... off the property tax because that is income redistribution and should never be on the property tax."

But Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, who attended a summit session earlier in the day, said the city needs to do a better job managing the funds it has before going to Ottawa.

"You can't go to the federal government and ask for money when you're not running your organization as well as you can," Minnan-Wong said. "Because if you just get the money without running your organization better, you're just going to spend that money badly."

Miller said he wants the federal government to include the 1 cents -- about $400 million a year for Toronto -- in next month's federal budget.