Comments on: Is Saanich council out of touch? Infrastructure deficit looms https://grumpytaxpayers.com/2019/05/is-saanich-council-out-of-touch-huge-infrastructure-deficit-looms/ Almost the Best Place on Earth Fri, 03 May 2019 15:40:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: B Hobson https://grumpytaxpayers.com/2019/05/is-saanich-council-out-of-touch-huge-infrastructure-deficit-looms/#comment-163 Fri, 03 May 2019 15:40:53 +0000 http://grumpytaxpayers.com/?p=2491#comment-163 Agreed. Three notes to add:

Tax increases to existing residents should be somewhat mitigated by property taxes on new development, yet these new funds usually go to new services.

Making housing “more affordable” should mean keeping taxes and water/sewer increases at or below inflation. If pensions for seniors, and wages for young people are only increasing 2.3%, how is increasing taxes 4% and water/sewer often increasing 8+% making housing more affordable?

The Employer Health Tax is meant to replace MSP. As each Municipality pays MSP for their employees, there should be an offset reduction to this expense in 2020. (Not sure why this isn’t applicable in 2019, but that’s for those who want to debate Provincial policies).

BH

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