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Making Toronto a better city
March 10, 2010
By Arthur Weinreb
Read More: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20860
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The liberal Toronto Star began an in depth feature about how to make Toronto and the GTA a better place to live. Even the Star that supports the socialists on Toronto City Council acknowledges that the city is not as good as it can be. The reasons are obvious at least to others; we’ve turned into a full blown nanny state where people who are not members of the elites’ special interest groups are ignored. We are a police state if you count the idling police, the puppy police, the plastic bag police, etc. We are blessed with a council that simply cannot stop taxing and spending as they strive to take care of all the residents who they deem incapable of looking after themselves.
The latest example of the silliness that is government in Toronto was Councillor Joe Mihevc’s argument that Toronto should not sell two ski hills that the city owns in order to raise some much needed cash. According to Mihevc, if the hills are acquired by private concerns, those companies will increase fees. So to Mihevc and his ilk, residents of Toronto have a right to affordable skiing. It’s no wonder that the city is deteriorating as taxes go sky high.
One of the problems facing Toronto is gridlock due to the war on cars that the city mothers are fighting. Traffic congestion is not only ignored but is made worse by the continuous construction of bicycle lanes on major arteries. Common sense dictates that if the congestion was eased, it would make it much easier for bicycles and public transit to move. But there’s no room for common sense.
The major problems are overspending, taxes that are too high and over regulation but don’t look to the Toronto Star to come up with any solutions to the city’s problems other than more of the same.
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March 10, 2010
By Arthur Weinreb
Read More: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20860
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The liberal Toronto Star began an in depth feature about how to make Toronto and the GTA a better place to live. Even the Star that supports the socialists on Toronto City Council acknowledges that the city is not as good as it can be. The reasons are obvious at least to others; we’ve turned into a full blown nanny state where people who are not members of the elites’ special interest groups are ignored. We are a police state if you count the idling police, the puppy police, the plastic bag police, etc. We are blessed with a council that simply cannot stop taxing and spending as they strive to take care of all the residents who they deem incapable of looking after themselves.
The latest example of the silliness that is government in Toronto was Councillor Joe Mihevc’s argument that Toronto should not sell two ski hills that the city owns in order to raise some much needed cash. According to Mihevc, if the hills are acquired by private concerns, those companies will increase fees. So to Mihevc and his ilk, residents of Toronto have a right to affordable skiing. It’s no wonder that the city is deteriorating as taxes go sky high.
One of the problems facing Toronto is gridlock due to the war on cars that the city mothers are fighting. Traffic congestion is not only ignored but is made worse by the continuous construction of bicycle lanes on major arteries. Common sense dictates that if the congestion was eased, it would make it much easier for bicycles and public transit to move. But there’s no room for common sense.
The major problems are overspending, taxes that are too high and over regulation but don’t look to the Toronto Star to come up with any solutions to the city’s problems other than more of the same.
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