Media Have It Wrong It’s Not Transit but Chronic Spending is Most Pressing Issue Facing Voters

April 26, 2010 - PRLog -- It seems once again the left leaning media elite in Toronto are attempting to make transit the number one issue facing the voters.

The people however, have a different view and that is the unsustainable and chronic spending by incumbent councillors for the past 13 to 30 years has to come to an end in 2010.

Transit financing can be solved once and for all if the provincial and federal governments got off their respective CULOS and made a lasting commitment to Public Transit.

All these politicians at both levels of government have to do in supporting cities with existing public transit is to allocate, a per cent age of the billions of dollars collect annually through existing gasoline and diesel taxes, based on populations to each city.

The overburdened taxpayers, be they renters, condo or homeowners and businesses alike, do not want new taxes in the form of road tolls,as a new hidden tax discussed as toll tax for the Don Valley and Gardner.

That would amount to a $50.tax per week tax or $2,600 per year taken out of our salaries in addition to gas taxes etc.

Nor do we want to be forcing home builders to pay for annual metro passes of $1,308 per unit as an additional cost of buying your new condo home.

Spending six hundred thousand dollars $600,000 of taxpayers hard earned income as a Guarantor to gain votes or support from Toronto Cyclists Union and bank roll a private corporation is NOT being fiscally responsible at any time.

Torontonians are united from downtown to the suburbs, that incumbent councillors chronic spending in support of left leaning unsustainable ideologies for transit or other core and non-core services must stop.

For the past 7 years and longer Toronto’s incumbent life long career councillors have had NO REGARD for PRUDENCE when it came to spending tax payer dollars.

They have failed the city outrageously with their inability to manage the affairs of the city in a fiscally responsible manner.

You do not have to take my word for it as the city’s top bureaucrats have finally come clean this election year and admitted that Toronto has a serious crisis because of chronic spending, borrowing and taxing, yet they just continue to seek new ways of taxing Toronto residents and businesses even further as they discuss the 2010 budget.

Councillors’ outrageous practice of increasing spending at an average rate of 5.21% annually since 2003 over revenues represents a 1.9% ABOVE INFLATION RATES because of their chronic ingratiating appetite to spend our money.

Each 2% increase in tax rates since 2003 has siphoned over $22 MILLION DOLLARS from Toronto Renters, Condo, Single Family Homeowners and Businesses alike.

If these same councillors who supported the outgoing Mayor with his promise to live within the rate of inflation when they last sought your vote, Toronto would not be in such a fiscal mess, left for a new slate of councillors to take care of in a common sense manner.

Let us all not forget that since amalgamation incumbent councillors have approved budgeted spending by 64.23%.

The clear result being that their spending on non-priority items, services, programs have increased taxes on average at TWICE the ANNUAL RATE of INFLATION for the corresponding period of time.

Such failed budgeting policies of borrow, spend, tax and always continuing to grasp for more taxing powers supported by this outgoing Mayor and his majority of left leaning ideologies of incumbent councillors over the past 13 to 30 years or longer have proven to be fiscally irresponsible.

You see taxpayers who have had to foot the bills because of incumbent councillors out of control chronic spending habits, have another issue on October 25, 2010.

Only in the minds of the media, is transit the most pressing issue.

Time for meaningful change within the community and at city hall by the people on October 25, 2010.

PETERCLARKETORONTO.COM

Toronto is OUR CITY, YOUR VOTE and OUR FUTURE TOGETHER begins with your victory on October 25, 2010.

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CLARKE an INDEPENDENT NOT a CAREER Politician or supporter of any political party, special interest group or lobbyists. PETER is your average citizen candidate and answerable only to the people NOT a political party, special interest group or lobbyist