Calgary mayoral election October 16, 2017
Don't think I saw a thread on this but the candidates for this years mayoral election were confirmed last week.
Any thoughts? (other than screw nenshi and his twitter rampages blah blah blah for the 1000th time)
Shawn Baldwin
http://www.shawnbaldwin.ca
Andre Chabot
http://www.chabot4calgary.ca
Paul Hughes
Site not complete:http://www.paulinate.com
David Lapp
http://lappteam2017.com/
Nenshi
http://www.nenshi.ca/
Only person I've crossed off my list is Paul Hughes as i strongly oppose urban backyard chicken coops. But I haven't really had time to review the rest.
Additional candidates:
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the votes were split between them. 50% higher taxes later...
Yeah, that generally happens when there's more than 2 candidates. :rofl:
Just curious what you think the other two would have done differently that wouldn't have somehow raised taxes?
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Yeah, that generally happens when there's more than 2 candidates. :rofl:
Just curious what you think the other two would have done differently that wouldn't have somehow raised taxes?
Don't we have a surplus? Oh.. and no bike lanes would of saved a couple bucks
I've been in this house for 5 years... my taxes have doubled, seems unnecessary
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Ever watched the movie Pretty Woman? Nenshi is Julia Roberts and the tax payers are Richard Gere
That doesn't answer my question though. I mean the bike lanes costs are a drop in the bucket, so what would really be different (aside from not hearing a purple tweeting blabbermouth)?
Also, didn't you buy a rather high end house in an unfinished community? Did you not expect taxes to go up along with your investment?
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Only once, in 2007, has council ever actually approved a tax increase below Calgary’s inflation rate. However, once Nenshi was in office, in the following years for 2010 and 2012, the tax hike was five times the rate of inflation, and then almost eight times the rate of inflation in 2013 (back when the city hiked property taxes by 13.1% with inflation at just 1.7%). Then they hit us with another 4.5% in property tax hikes for 2015, which was triple the average annual Statistics Canada inflation rate for the 2010-2014 period in Calgary.
All of this is resulting in a massive cumulative increase in taxes for home owners... Calgary has gone from one of the most reasonable cities for property taxes, to one of the most expense.
Meanwhile, utility rates for water, wastewater and drainage have gone up by double-digit percentages each year, ranging from 15.4 per cent to 27.8 per cent annually depending on the year and the particular charge.
Mark Milke, is that you?
Reading beyond the the copypasta you just did, the actual City Of Calgary portion of residential property tax increases have only been around 3.5% annually (give or take .2%). As you said the Province is thirsty for money, anything beyond that is their doing, not the purple headed twitterer.
You'll also notice how massively sprawling Calgary has become since the time of "the most reasonable city for property taxes", which costs everyone living here, and of course because we're 21st century humans, people also demand more services these days. None of that has to do with Nenshi himself, these are all costs that Dr.No and Higgins would have had to deal with as well.