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An asset?
Re "What crisis? City buys theatre" (July 18): Mayor David Miller is quoted saying, "The message is very simple here: We're buying an asset ... It is worth what we are paying for it and we will still have it." If this theatre were an asset, it wouldn't need a bail out. No wonder we are in a financial crisis.
Mike Maher
Scarborough
(You're acting out a bit. It's an asset that the city can sell for cash if necessary. The threatre group that owned it needed the cash to wipe out a $500,000 debt)
If it is such an asset why wasn't it used to wipe out the debt. Is this the only theatre venue in Toronto.
Heading south
Re "Political play a Queen St. flop" (July 19): I vote for a journalism prize to Sue-Ann Levy for her coverage of this ongoing comedy fiasco. I'd laugh until my sides hurt if the idiocy of the move wasn't so tragic. Council was largely outraged when it was suggested they roll back their hefty 9% salary increase as a "symbolic gesture" to the rest of us poor suckers who will feel the brunt of their mismanagement one way or the other -- tax hikes, for one. Leon's wins the right to put up a new warehouse in the old Roundhouse. Let's keep destroying the history of this city for a corporate buck. It's time to book passage to Antarctica. The penguins can't be any dumber than our city council. Hope there is Internet there so I can read Levy's continued reporting of this repulsive saga.
Brian Stein
(Take your sunscreen)
Buyer always pays
Recent letter writers have advocated having the land transfer tax paid by the vendor. Can we really believe vendors would not add any transfer tax onto the selling price? As with any product, taxes are always paid in the end by the buyer.
Norman Gee
Edmonton
(Especially when houses are sold without conditions or in a bidding war)
A poor example
I am not the least bit surprised after reading "Council to keep pay raises" (July 19). It's a typical politician's response -- "Do as I say, not as I do!" Toronto councillors want city taxpayers to accept huge tax increases and service cuts but insist on continuing to feed at the public trough. It doesn't matter where you live in this country, big city or small town, a politician is still a politician. They seem to have little social conscience and are totally unwilling to lead by example. While rolling back their salaries would be, in the grand scheme of things, a proverbial "drop in the bucket," it would send a positive signal to Toronto taxpayers. I hope taxpayers remember their arrogance at the next municipal election.
Robert Trowell
Ingersoll
(Too bad your vote doesn't count)
Your vote doesn't seem to count even when you are paying the freight.....
Watering in the rain
I walked by City Hall yesterday morning, a drizzly, rainy day, and was shocked to see the sprinklers near the Bay/Queen intersection running at full bore. It was raining, for Pete's sake! Not 30 minutes before that I heard a radio spot by the City of Toronto telling people how to properly water their lawns, and conserve water. Huh! I think David Miller, et al, should practice what they preach.
Dave Young
(The city truly is drowning)
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