FULL DESCRIPTION AND RATIONALE OF BILL'S TAX REDUCTION PLAN
SUMMARY OF BILL'S TAX CUT PLAN
• We have the highest tax rates in the GTA and among the highest in Canada. We need tax cuts to cut waste and inefficiency out of Oshawa City Hall---We can only have what we can afford!
• I propose annual 3% cuts until our tax rate reaches the average taxation rate in the GTA
• City Taxes increased by 13% over the last term of council which was twice as fast as costs measured by inflation at 6.56%
• Mayor Candidate Louise Parkes who is now calling for 5% Councillor Salary Rollbacks and whose campaign signs call for "Fair Taxation" took salary/expense increases of 54% in the first 3 years of her present term with results not yet in for 2010 and called for increased office budgets to cover her travel costs---Can you trust her "election time" campaign promise to hold the line on politician's entitlements? Are her huge compensation gains the kind of "Fair Taxation" she's calling for? We need honest city politians, not deceptive and deceitful ones! She get's free downtown parking at city hall yet used your tax money to buy $250 worth of downtown parking tokens. Were these tokens to provide the "free" downtown parking advertised by her husband's downtown furniture store? Good question!
• City debt has escalated from $10M to $100M in a few short years under John Gray's leadership and we have to STOP THE TAX AND SPEND MADNESS from city hall
• A $350,000 Oshawa house would save $1200 annually if moved across the townline into Clarington, Scugog, or Whitby.
• That $350,000 Oshawa house pays more tax than would be paid on a $450,000 house in 23 of 25 GTA municipalities, more than would be paid on a $550,000 house in 16 of 25 GTA municipalities, and more than would be paid on a $750,000 house in 3 of 25 GTA municipalities.
• That $350,000 Oshawa house pays as much tax a you'd pay on an $880,000 Toronto house.
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1. BILL LONGWORTH'S #1 PRIORITY---GUARANTEED ANNUAL TAX CUTS
FULL DESCRIPTION AND RATIONALE OF BILL'S TAX REDUCTION PLAN
SUMMARY OF BILL'S TAX CUT PLAN
• We have the highest tax rates in the GTA and among the highest in Canada. We need tax cuts to cut waste and inefficiency out of Oshawa City Hall---We can only have what we can afford!
• I propose annual 3% cuts until our tax rate reaches the average taxation rate in the GTA
• City Taxes increased by 13% over the last term of council which was twice as fast as costs measured by inflation at 6.56%
• Mayor Candidate Louise Parkes who is now calling for 5% Councillor Salary Rollbacks and whose campaign signs call for "Fair Taxation" took salary/expense increases of 54% in the first 3 years of her present term with results not yet in for 2010 and called for increased office budgets to cover her travel costs---Can you trust her "election time" campaign promise to hold the line on politician's entitlements? Are her huge compensation gains the kind of "Fair Taxation" she's calling for? We need honest city politians, not deceptive and deceitful ones! She get's free downtown parking at city hall yet used your tax money to buy $250 worth of downtown parking tokens. Were these tokens to provide the "free" downtown parking advertised by her husband's downtown furniture store? Good question!
• City debt has escalated from $10M to $100M in a few short years under John Gray's leadership and we have to STOP THE TAX AND SPEND MADNESS from city hall
• A $350,000 Oshawa house would save $1200 annually if moved across the townline into Clarington, Scugog, or Whitby.
• That $350,000 Oshawa house pays more tax than would be paid on a $450,000 house in 23 of 25 GTA municipalities, more than would be paid on a $550,000 house in 16 of 25 GTA municipalities, and more than would be paid on a $750,000 house in 3 of 25 GTA municipalities.
• That $350,000 Oshawa house pays as much tax a you'd pay on an $880,000 Toronto house.
