Maybe Groper will do in Alberta what he is doing in Ontario. Every time Ford cancels something to reduce the deficit, Groper replaces it with federal money. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the election.
According to Turdeau and his team, small business is just a tax dodge for the rich. So Team Turdeau will raise taxes again.
Geez! Who could have imagined that. Big business vacates because of government interference and environmental policies that directly effect their bottom line and they transfer out of the area, leaving all of Trudeau’s tax dodgers to pick up the slack. Only thing is without big business there is no little business, but there will always be the government employees that require their pay cheques and pensions.
Under the sozi government of Nutley a substantial part of those pay checks and pensions are being paid with borrowed money.
Olympics is a huge scam on the taxpayers. Just a big expensive EGO forum for elite athletes and greasy slimy politicians. No thanks, shove the Olympics up your ass.
It’s the kiss of death. Only bankrupt, double down cities go for one last “It’ll pay for itself” boondoggle.
You taxpayers dodged a big bullet. ( Hacks, cronys, unions, bond salesmen have the sads)
The businesses just have to close; GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT.
Every business in Calgary should just close, stop paying the rental fee/lease/propery tax whatever.
What do you suppose all those Nenshi voters will do, when there is only one business left in the city, one die hard socialist trying to prop Nenshi up? No gas stations, no grocery stores, no restaurants, no hardware stores, nothing.
In plain and simple language, the only way out is to make people suffer for the way they have been voting, and the people they keep voting for.
So glad I saw the writing on the wall and left. When Nenshi was elected back in 2011/2012 (can not remember when), I knew that he had the “gay disease” of spending money like there is no tomorrow. My property taxes kept increasing every year until I saw “No Mas!” and moved to Regina. Sadly, the politicians in Regina are contracting the gay disease of spend money like crazy as well.
Regina politicians started spending money like crazy back when the buffalo still roamed.
of course there’s something they can do…
…stop spending money like it’s always going to be there
every government does it
The business community, small/medium especially, retail and service sector, who are about to be decimated by this tax increase. They need to organize a one week shutdown calling on Mayor Nenshi and City Council to to heel.
If they, their employees and customers/supporters marched on City Hall for that week. A short, sharp pull on their chain might correct things.
Remember, the Mayor and most Councillors are no smarter than the cabal running Venezuela into the ground !
Within the federal Canadian system, it will take 5-10 years to turn the Western economy around if Trudeau loses. 2-5 years, if the prairie provinces vote for sovereignty association.
If neither occurs, the one thing P.M. Justin Trudeau is qualified for; he can do a credible portrayal of a Latin American caudillo.
The Province of Alberta is hurting financially. There’s waste, and abuse. The writing has been on the wall for some time. I knew about the rally on Monday in Calgary, at 7:30 am but figured why bother posting it here when some post that it was “good on ya” that we have the tax increases that we now have.
This schadenfreude does us no good.
Didn’t vote these people in.
Voted “no” re: Olympics.
Get rid of these people at City and pensions.
Get an Auditor to run the place.
Stop with expensive rental buildings for storing garbage and burn it and convert it to electricity.
Clean house. Cut spending.
Steakman has suggested other good ideas that might take precedence, rather than schemes like new arenas and dreams of Olympic Games. They should listen to him and others who’ve made good suggestions.
I could go on and on.
Taxpayers have to get tough. When any political party calls me for donations, I tell them I can’t afford it sorry, my taxes are too high, and besides I do not support low life greasy lazy politicians. When they come to my door, I answer the door, I tell them to get the f off my property they are trespassing. And that I have no use for greasy lazy fat assed politicians. They never do as they promise to get your vote. They are liars and thieves. Just parasites. Nenshi is typical of 99% of greasy low life politicians. A day old donkey has more brains.
Good thing we don’t have to pay for an Eco Mentor!….oppsss.
From the US, but familiar with too many taxes. I still don’t understand WHY the taxes are climbing so high. There was one sentence on something to do with oil revenues down but there was no explanation of why. Is there a logical, or practical reason that there is (all of a sudden) a large down trend in tax receipts? So large that double digit increases are needed?
When the oil price tanked back in 2013-2014, it started a landslide. With their margins destroyed and debt coming due, company after company went tits up, including severe staffing cuts and downsizing at larger companies. Over the course of the following four years, something like 80-100k jobs were lost in the downtown core (90% or so of Canada’s energy companies are in DT Calgary, and our population is only about 1.1 million), as well as at related service companies, and several larger companies abandoned their Canadian operations entirely. Vacancy rate is something like 30%, and rents have plummeted (some have been offering zero rent, just op costs). The tax base that would pay these business taxes and property taxes just doesn’t exist, and the industry still hasn’t recovered. And don’t get me started on how the feds (and, until Notley was ousted, the province) piling on has just made the whole thing worse.
Hopefully, that helps clarify it a bit.
One huge problem with government generally is that the “progressive” side, ie. unionistas, whackademics and career politicians can find the time to get involved but ordinary workers and business people cannot or will not. This is especially true of the municipal level of government which comes to be dominated by the “progressive” faction. It sounds like Calgary, and most other large Canadian cities need to get more business people on city councils.
Tax Revolt. Just stop. It is way cheaper in the long run and less bloody than a revolution, and it cuts government right off at the knees. Go on strike. Tell the banks the government has your money. They can’t mass foreclose without SHREDDING their own NAV and NII irrecoverably. The banks will call up the government and remind them that it is THEY (the banks) and THEY ALONE that underwrite ALL government debt …
Calgary city council has the most extravagant pension of any city in Canada. It’s something like 5/1 – for every dollar a councilor contributes the taxpayer throws in 5.
it but is outrageous.
Go, Kristie Stuart! Piss on Nenshi! And she is cute, but I mean that in a respectful way. In fact, she is hot. Ok…
Lack of oil money …. mmmm. Problem for Calgary today. A problem for Canada tomorrow ….
Calgary hasn’t known hard times like today since the last time another class A asshole named Trudeau was Prime Minister. Given that the mentality of constant growth had 30 years or an entire generation to condition the electorate, their city council, lead by a Mayor on par with the Trudeaus somehow couldn’t conceive of a situation where the tax base would shrink? You would think that five consecutive years of declining real estate values and downtown office occupancy would give them a clue as to how they might want to hold the line on or reduce expenditures if they had any consideration for the remaining rate payers. Who is the most culpable? The City Council and Mayor or the idiots that elected them.
Not sure that anybody voted here, the turnout was so bad. We only vote every 3 years in Calgary for these clowns.
“…or will not.”
Not sure there’s many businessmen or women that are interested in going through the wringer that would be thrown at them if they were to run with a true “cut spending” platform. The push back would be instantaneous from the unions and special interest groups and the media, of course being the promoters of the progressive agenda, would broadcast nightly the evils of “draconian cuts”. As the poll numbers go up so then would the digging. Nice private life you HAD. Social media would be analyzed for anything that could be turned into a scandal. If that didn’t work then they’d go after family, friends and acquaintances. It’s a nasty process. I’m not saying they’re not out there but the numbers go down considerably when all this is considered.
socialists/communists are and continue to be the problem, they only know how to destroy not create, other than chaos.
seems theyre still in denial of something, red rach STILL prominent on ye olde web site main page.
lol !!!
gubbamint and taxes? and deficits?
I was reading an analysis somewhere, prob a link from SDA, about gubbamints NEVER pay their debts.
never.
repeat: NEVER pay their debts.
sooooooo who ganna pay da pipah? youse. via hyperinflation which WIPES OUT savings, pensions, securities et friggin CETERA.
in other words, what you *actually have* (on paper), will NOT be yours when the piper leaves with his loot bag overflowing.
if you are not utterly crystal clear on how THAT works, in the mean type, STOP BORROWING.
that means you too mr socialism.
The Canadian government style of leadership have FIXED costs, such that when revenue goes down they must increase taxes… Fixed costs are an Union created misnomer to protect their jobs … Firing high maintenance employees when revenue declines is a survival mode practice for private business…..Who Knew!
Maybe Groper will do in Alberta what he is doing in Ontario. Every time Ford cancels something to reduce the deficit, Groper replaces it with federal money. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the election.
According to Turdeau and his team, small business is just a tax dodge for the rich. So Team Turdeau will raise taxes again.
Geez! Who could have imagined that. Big business vacates because of government interference and environmental policies that directly effect their bottom line and they transfer out of the area, leaving all of Trudeau’s tax dodgers to pick up the slack. Only thing is without big business there is no little business, but there will always be the government employees that require their pay cheques and pensions.
Under the sozi government of Nutley a substantial part of those pay checks and pensions are being paid with borrowed money.
Olympics is a huge scam on the taxpayers. Just a big expensive EGO forum for elite athletes and greasy slimy politicians. No thanks, shove the Olympics up your ass.
It’s the kiss of death. Only bankrupt, double down cities go for one last “It’ll pay for itself” boondoggle.
You taxpayers dodged a big bullet. ( Hacks, cronys, unions, bond salesmen have the sads)
The businesses just have to close; GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT.
Every business in Calgary should just close, stop paying the rental fee/lease/propery tax whatever.
What do you suppose all those Nenshi voters will do, when there is only one business left in the city, one die hard socialist trying to prop Nenshi up? No gas stations, no grocery stores, no restaurants, no hardware stores, nothing.
In plain and simple language, the only way out is to make people suffer for the way they have been voting, and the people they keep voting for.
So glad I saw the writing on the wall and left. When Nenshi was elected back in 2011/2012 (can not remember when), I knew that he had the “gay disease” of spending money like there is no tomorrow. My property taxes kept increasing every year until I saw “No Mas!” and moved to Regina. Sadly, the politicians in Regina are contracting the gay disease of spend money like crazy as well.
Regina politicians started spending money like crazy back when the buffalo still roamed.
of course there’s something they can do…
…stop spending money like it’s always going to be there
every government does it
The business community, small/medium especially, retail and service sector, who are about to be decimated by this tax increase. They need to organize a one week shutdown calling on Mayor Nenshi and City Council to to heel.
If they, their employees and customers/supporters marched on City Hall for that week. A short, sharp pull on their chain might correct things.
Remember, the Mayor and most Councillors are no smarter than the cabal running Venezuela into the ground !
Within the federal Canadian system, it will take 5-10 years to turn the Western economy around if Trudeau loses. 2-5 years, if the prairie provinces vote for sovereignty association.
If neither occurs, the one thing P.M. Justin Trudeau is qualified for; he can do a credible portrayal of a Latin American caudillo.
The Province of Alberta is hurting financially. There’s waste, and abuse. The writing has been on the wall for some time. I knew about the rally on Monday in Calgary, at 7:30 am but figured why bother posting it here when some post that it was “good on ya” that we have the tax increases that we now have.
This schadenfreude does us no good.
Didn’t vote these people in.
Voted “no” re: Olympics.
Get rid of these people at City and pensions.
Get an Auditor to run the place.
Stop with expensive rental buildings for storing garbage and burn it and convert it to electricity.
Clean house. Cut spending.
Steakman has suggested other good ideas that might take precedence, rather than schemes like new arenas and dreams of Olympic Games. They should listen to him and others who’ve made good suggestions.
I could go on and on.
Taxpayers have to get tough. When any political party calls me for donations, I tell them I can’t afford it sorry, my taxes are too high, and besides I do not support low life greasy lazy politicians. When they come to my door, I answer the door, I tell them to get the f off my property they are trespassing. And that I have no use for greasy lazy fat assed politicians. They never do as they promise to get your vote. They are liars and thieves. Just parasites. Nenshi is typical of 99% of greasy low life politicians. A day old donkey has more brains.
Good thing we don’t have to pay for an Eco Mentor!….oppsss.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/05/30/cowed-town/
From the US, but familiar with too many taxes. I still don’t understand WHY the taxes are climbing so high. There was one sentence on something to do with oil revenues down but there was no explanation of why. Is there a logical, or practical reason that there is (all of a sudden) a large down trend in tax receipts? So large that double digit increases are needed?
When the oil price tanked back in 2013-2014, it started a landslide. With their margins destroyed and debt coming due, company after company went tits up, including severe staffing cuts and downsizing at larger companies. Over the course of the following four years, something like 80-100k jobs were lost in the downtown core (90% or so of Canada’s energy companies are in DT Calgary, and our population is only about 1.1 million), as well as at related service companies, and several larger companies abandoned their Canadian operations entirely. Vacancy rate is something like 30%, and rents have plummeted (some have been offering zero rent, just op costs). The tax base that would pay these business taxes and property taxes just doesn’t exist, and the industry still hasn’t recovered. And don’t get me started on how the feds (and, until Notley was ousted, the province) piling on has just made the whole thing worse.
Hopefully, that helps clarify it a bit.
One huge problem with government generally is that the “progressive” side, ie. unionistas, whackademics and career politicians can find the time to get involved but ordinary workers and business people cannot or will not. This is especially true of the municipal level of government which comes to be dominated by the “progressive” faction. It sounds like Calgary, and most other large Canadian cities need to get more business people on city councils.
Tax Revolt. Just stop. It is way cheaper in the long run and less bloody than a revolution, and it cuts government right off at the knees. Go on strike. Tell the banks the government has your money. They can’t mass foreclose without SHREDDING their own NAV and NII irrecoverably. The banks will call up the government and remind them that it is THEY (the banks) and THEY ALONE that underwrite ALL government debt …
Calgary city council has the most extravagant pension of any city in Canada. It’s something like 5/1 – for every dollar a councilor contributes the taxpayer throws in 5.
it but is outrageous.
Go, Kristie Stuart! Piss on Nenshi! And she is cute, but I mean that in a respectful way. In fact, she is hot. Ok…
Lack of oil money …. mmmm. Problem for Calgary today. A problem for Canada tomorrow ….
Calgary hasn’t known hard times like today since the last time another class A asshole named Trudeau was Prime Minister. Given that the mentality of constant growth had 30 years or an entire generation to condition the electorate, their city council, lead by a Mayor on par with the Trudeaus somehow couldn’t conceive of a situation where the tax base would shrink? You would think that five consecutive years of declining real estate values and downtown office occupancy would give them a clue as to how they might want to hold the line on or reduce expenditures if they had any consideration for the remaining rate payers. Who is the most culpable? The City Council and Mayor or the idiots that elected them.
Not sure that anybody voted here, the turnout was so bad. We only vote every 3 years in Calgary for these clowns.
“…or will not.”
Not sure there’s many businessmen or women that are interested in going through the wringer that would be thrown at them if they were to run with a true “cut spending” platform. The push back would be instantaneous from the unions and special interest groups and the media, of course being the promoters of the progressive agenda, would broadcast nightly the evils of “draconian cuts”. As the poll numbers go up so then would the digging. Nice private life you HAD. Social media would be analyzed for anything that could be turned into a scandal. If that didn’t work then they’d go after family, friends and acquaintances. It’s a nasty process. I’m not saying they’re not out there but the numbers go down considerably when all this is considered.
socialists/communists are and continue to be the problem, they only know how to destroy not create, other than chaos.
speaking of things alberta ndpee:
https://www.albertandp.ca/
seems theyre still in denial of something, red rach STILL prominent on ye olde web site main page.
lol !!!
gubbamint and taxes? and deficits?
I was reading an analysis somewhere, prob a link from SDA, about gubbamints NEVER pay their debts.
never.
repeat: NEVER pay their debts.
sooooooo who ganna pay da pipah? youse. via hyperinflation which WIPES OUT savings, pensions, securities et friggin CETERA.
in other words, what you *actually have* (on paper), will NOT be yours when the piper leaves with his loot bag overflowing.
if you are not utterly crystal clear on how THAT works, in the mean type, STOP BORROWING.
that means you too mr socialism.
The Canadian government style of leadership have FIXED costs, such that when revenue goes down they must increase taxes… Fixed costs are an Union created misnomer to protect their jobs … Firing high maintenance employees when revenue declines is a survival mode practice for private business…..Who Knew!