shockedcanadian
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Docile and obedient citizens wonder why.
Police States are expensive. They are even more expensive when your best and brightest, most driven and hard working leave for America, Japan or elsewhere to ply their talents.
A fool and their money are soon parted. This is going to be the story across MANY Ontario cities. I've watched TV shows that sell multi-million dollar properties in the U.S and their property taxes are lower than mine!
Maybe if citizens cared about expenses of government and the destruction of civil liberties as police manufactured threats by the young and poor, these citizens wouldn't have to pay for the S.I.C.
Alan and Dawn Gosnay moved to the northern Ontario township of Fauquier-Strickland late last year, attracted by the lower housing costs and an opportunity to live closer to their grandchildren.
"We saw the house and the town and that was it. We fell in love," Alan said. "It was great. The house is beautiful."
The couple settled into the community, which is east of Kapuskasing on Highway 11 and has a population of about 500, in December. But when the new year rolled around, he said, their property taxes went from around $2,300 a year to $5,600.
As a retiree on a fixed income, that came as a shock.
Then came more troubling news: At a community meeting on Tuesday, a township councillor said a 200 per cent property tax increase would be needed to balance Fauquier-Strickland's finances.
"And I'm thinking, 'Holy mackerel, you got to be freaking kidding me, right?' You just can't do that," Alan said.
Police States are expensive. They are even more expensive when your best and brightest, most driven and hard working leave for America, Japan or elsewhere to ply their talents.
A fool and their money are soon parted. This is going to be the story across MANY Ontario cities. I've watched TV shows that sell multi-million dollar properties in the U.S and their property taxes are lower than mine!
Maybe if citizens cared about expenses of government and the destruction of civil liberties as police manufactured threats by the young and poor, these citizens wouldn't have to pay for the S.I.C.
Alan and Dawn Gosnay moved to the northern Ontario township of Fauquier-Strickland late last year, attracted by the lower housing costs and an opportunity to live closer to their grandchildren.
"We saw the house and the town and that was it. We fell in love," Alan said. "It was great. The house is beautiful."
The couple settled into the community, which is east of Kapuskasing on Highway 11 and has a population of about 500, in December. But when the new year rolled around, he said, their property taxes went from around $2,300 a year to $5,600.
As a retiree on a fixed income, that came as a shock.
Then came more troubling news: At a community meeting on Tuesday, a township councillor said a 200 per cent property tax increase would be needed to balance Fauquier-Strickland's finances.
"And I'm thinking, 'Holy mackerel, you got to be freaking kidding me, right?' You just can't do that," Alan said.
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