On imposing higher taxes
Ottawa Mayor "as good as dead"
Shawn Graham and Dalton McGuinty learned the hard way. So did Mayor David Miller last month after trying to impose two new taxes [land tax and vehicle registration tax] on Torontonians. But just when you thought a good many had learned from their mistakes, this guy comes along.
When will these politicians learn, new unilaterally imposed taxes never go over well with the general public.
Frankly, it's political suicide.
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And he claims to be a fiscal conservative. yeah right!
I think you need to look more closely at this issue. Its not the same as that communist Miller in T.O. O'Brien ran on a platform of running the Municipality like a business and won against two serious long term Municipal politicians who were left leaning avidly socialist, as is the majority of the council. O'Brien is not being lambasted in the press and by his opponents - and he has many in the left leaning establishment in Ottawa, for supporting tax increases when he promised not to raise city taxes.
He has some serious issues, he needs money to avoid Montreal-like infrastructure issues but it is the council that refuses to reduce spending on other services that are frankly nice to haves and not vital to the running of the municipality. It is a clear case of the fiscal conservative against the social activists and leftists.
O'Brien is losing, and in my opinion Ottawa will lose...
O'Brien is not being lambasted in the press and by his opponents...
You could have fooled me.
Actually, that sentence reads better
"O'Brien is now being lambasted...."
Just bad editing, and not trying to fool anyone.
No worries. I think that's what threw me off, especially since the Citizen and the Ottawa Sun have been making a living off of O'Brien lately.
I mean, they tried to make hay out of Heather Tessier taking a LOA from his office to run a provincial campaign. Believe me, absolutely no story there.
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