Comrade Miller and his puppets........
'Opposition be damned'City's executive committee delays, debates, diminishes all criticism of proposed new taxes |
I can't for the life of me understand why the King of Denial (and ever increasing arrogance) even bothered to court feedback yesterday from the many citizens who've chosen not to embrace his long and lucrative list of new taxation tools.
After all, it was preordained -- perhaps months ago when the City of Toronto Act was first passed into law -- that Mayor David Miller and his minions would find any creative way they could to squeeze the life out of taxpayers using their new taxing powers.
I mean, let's be honest here. Thanks to their generous union wage deals, fair wage practices, an adamant refusal to contract out and bone dry reserve funds, Miller has a $575-million deficit hole to fill next year and no bailouts on the books to help him.
And in the end, when Coun. Norm Kelly called the mayor's "tax reform" endeavours "bold," I knew we were sunk. Miller's executive committee approved the tax grab plan unanimously. It will go to council in mid-July.
So it's hardly surprising that not one smug socialist on the executive committee, least of all the King of Denial, had any interest in hearing views divergent from their own. They not only turned a deaf ear to the opposition, they laughed and bullied their opponents.
Never mind that it was the one -- and only -- opportunity afforded the city's business lobby groups and ordinary citizens to express their opposition to the Millerites face-to-face. The mayor had adamantly refused to attend any of the public consultations held in May.
Never mind that these roster of taxes -- which were vociferously opposed by virtually all 600 members of the public who turned up to the consultations and the 40 people slated to speak at yesterday's committee -- are likely the most contentious issue of the mayor's current term in office.
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