john farson

I tend to agree.

As long as the Liberal Party is not paying for the ads then I don't see a problem with it (and I'm not voting Liberal, either).

The cities you mentioned, and many others, of course, became that way because of commerce. Commerce did not go there because the cities were big or great cities or whatever. Commerce and trade make it possible for cities to afford social services.

I can't express in polite words how naive that statement is. Living within one's means is one thing, and very admirable at that. But it is a different thing when government taxes you out of your home. It's fine and dandy to talk about the law of the jungle when it's a constant, but when that law keeps changing it's a different thing entirely. Your cavalier attitude towards the issue speaks volumes. Are you a young, non-home owning member of the NDP? This city needs to take a long hard look at it's spending practices. There are essential services and non-essential services. Take care of the essential ones first. Get creative with how to fund them. Then take a look at non essential services. Fund them through the remaining revenue and/or institute user fees in needed. I too remember paying 50 cents to use a pool in Scarborough as a kid. It made sense to me then and still does. You can't keep having home owners and businesses paying the bulk of the expenses...it is simply not sustainable in the long run.

Toronto Budget

Agreed. But that doesn't change the fact that we are in this position and need to do something about it. Downloading sucked but it's never going to be uploaded again and the constant crying for more money is going to iritate the rest of the province more and more as time goes on. Anyone know where to find a nice condensed version of the Toronto budget and assets owned by the city?

He's very left wing. I'm not very intimiate with the budget details but there must be some way to cut fat at city hall! Because this is getting tired -- year after year it's the same plea for more money -- pathetic really. Other than his idea to make this city greener, he's devoid of the ability to think outside the box on seemingly all other issues. Here's an idea. Why not cut business taxes to lure companies back to the city? Businesses come back + people get jobs = more revenue for the city. But that kind thought process seems to be beyond Miller's socialist, eco-friendly, increase-taxes-one-track mindset.