Typical liberal strategy: sling the mud rather than talk about real issues...
Is it any wonder that Left-wing thought is never able to sell itself to the average person? This is why Left-wing talk radio and TV always is a losing proposition. It is idiotic in its reasoning. Left-wing candidates always have to lie about whom they are and what they believe in order to win. The only way for Left-wingers to win is to lie about themselves, their opponents AND most importantly, promise voters free stuff that will be paid for by other people.
If liberals agree, with each other, on any issue, then, by their reasoning... they are right and everyone else is wrong.
A real issue is finance. Rob Ford claims that the City is full of “spendaholics” running city hall and he says there is enough fat and inefficiency to slash costs.
Yet, Moody's states "The debt ratio has been stable for five years, including during the recent recession, she said." and "This debt burden is considered low when compared with other Canadian and international cities and, as such, constitutes a credit positive," analyst Jennifer Wong said.
Also of importance to the whole argument that Torontonians are suffering under the arduous tax regime of spendaholics is that Toronto has the
lowest residential property taxes in the
entire GTA.
Also the current council has cut business taxes by more than $190-million since 2006 and frozen development charges to assist the construction and development industry.
These facts suggests that Toronto is not necessarily in the midst of of spending and tax crisis that Ford claims and that the leftists have done a pretty good job managing the cities finances while keeping residential taxes the lowest in the region.
The biggest threat to the long term fiscal health of the City is not inefficiencies but major structural issues with how cities pay for services across this province and country. Cities are governed by a constitutional framework established in the 19th century when most Canadians still lived in rural communities. These are Toronto's and urban Canada's significant issues,
not Councillors expense accounts and Mayors need to talk about the big issues. Therefore, I will vote for the person who is best able to tackle these issues, not the person who gets distracted by expense accounts and vaguely alludes to inefficiencies
