Grand River Transit

[danbrotherston]

I think the point is that the marginal increase in going from homeless to housed-but-low-income would now be larger. Someone making that transition would, in addition to suddenly having to pay for rent, also effectively have their taxes (in the form of transit user fees) raised. I believe the suggestion is that free transit should perhaps be more gradually phased out.

A fair point -- but if their income increasees then it's not technically a tax rate increase.

I mean, I am fully in favour of municipalities having more progressive taxation.

But I also think that not providing social services to those most in need because the tax is not a progressive tax is fairly self defeating.

On the other hand, I'm also fully in favour of finding "efficiencies" (to use the euphemism of government arsonists) in the roads and police budget to fund these things as well.