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ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
(02-10-2021, 07:02 PM)jwilliamson Wrote: This is a suboptimal way to find local transit IMO. Instead of upper level governments collecting taxes and then redistributing back to lower levels by some more or less arbitrary method, we should just collect more taxes at the lower level and less at the higher level. Then funding can be better directed towards what is needed locally instead of what is eligible to be funded.

And you wouldn’t need to get 2 or even 3 governments to agree before proceeding.

The best thing the federal government could do for public transit in this country would be to credibly commit to never ever funding public transit. Then it would be clear that the provincial and municipal governments have to deal with the issue. Of course, it is impossible for a government to make such a commitment credibly even for itself, never mind for its successors.
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RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit - by ijmorlan - 02-10-2021, 09:10 PM

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