06-17-2020, 04:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-17-2020, 04:51 PM by danbrotherston.)
(06-17-2020, 04:04 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(06-17-2020, 11:38 AM)panamaniac Wrote: And if the provinces funded municipalities adequately, they might be able to be.
Why not just raise local taxes to pay for local projects?
Of course, if we didn’t take as a given that we need a huge road network we’d probably have lots of money at the local level.
Well, I'd like to see a re-allocation of money. But apparently there are some reasons why property taxes are not a particularly progressive way to fund services, and the cities are not permitted to levy any other form of taxes apparently.
From the perspective of the federal and provincial governments, giving money in this way is a way for the federal and provincial governments to exert "soft" influence on what cities do...