Toronto Star -- how low can they go?

Royston James this week published a op ed piece in the Star in which he suggested that the city's finances could be brought in line by each day hanging each of the city counselors in Nathan Phillips Square and charging admission. Now Royston being a black man obviously does not see the irony of his statement as compared to what happened in the American south not that long ago. You have to wonder of Royston was not a black man whether he would have been allowed to make those comments.

If you remember a couple of years ago the Star called for the armed over throw of the democratically Ontario Government -- the Harris Tory's. The said this was an op ed piece it just was not in the editorial pages of the Star.

How low can they go -- I am sure once someone takes the Star's advice to heart we will find out. Moron's the lot of them.

taxastrophe

Well it appears the mayor of our fair city, the honourable Mr Miller, won his battle to raise taxes in Toronto. He got both the license tax for cars and the tax on the sale of houses through. The house tax is just plain stupid -- in times of economic slowdowns with reduced new housing starts Mr Miller is going to see reduced tax revenues -- I understand he was loathe to raise property taxes, which by the way he is going to do anyway, but doubling the land transfer tax -- talk about stupid. I understand there may be an arguement that even in a recessio there will be a minimum number of house sales -- however I am pretty sure that is not what their budgets are based on. As for the car tax, just wait till all those cars are registered to addresses outside of Toronto. By the way has the province agreed to administer either of these taxes?

Mr Miller and the other sycophants on city council are a short sighted bunch -- they want the other levels of government to bail them out (I appreciate the argument) but refused to go after the parties during the last election, guess Mr Miller was a little busy at all those green city meetings.