Why Civic Action Group’s Varnished Favoritism for Personal Taxes and NOT Corporate and Union Transit Taxes?

James, Burton and the special interest group Civic Action all are proponents and mouthpieces for new revenue taxing sources directly and only on the individual taxpayer for:

Highway tolls, Sales tax, Property tax, Payroll tax, Fuel tax, Vehicle tax, Parking levy, Land transfer tax and Development charges as opposed to a 1% or 2 % transit tax levied on banks, unions, corporations doing business within Ontario and Canada!

As such they represent the interest of big business, banks corporations and unions NOT the residents and citizen taxpayers of Toronto, Ontario or Canada. Any new revenues for transit funding must come from a 1% or 2 % transit tax on banks, unions and all corporations doing business in Ontario and NOT a sales tax or other taxes directed against and on individual taxpayers.

It is TIME for banks, unions and all corporations to contribute their share for transit costs and NOT just citizen taxpayers.

Metrolinx and the city of Toronto transit funding proposals call for a city tax of some sort and DO NOT suggest or allow for a corporate transit tax on banks, unions, corporations and not profit organizations?

Revenue source	Nominal rate	GTHA annual revenue
Personal income tax increase	1%	$1.4 billion
Sales tax	1%	$1.3 billion
Property tax	1%	$90 million
Payroll tax	1%	$500 million
Highway tolls	10 cents/KM	$1.5 billion
Fuel tax	10 cents	$500 million
Vehicle tax	$100	$300 million
Parking levy	$365  space	$1.08 billion
Land transfer tax	1%	$600 million
Development fees	$5,000 unit	$200 million

Banks, Unions, Corps.  

Transit tax                   1%/2%         $6 to $12 billion      

The special interest group transit Alliance also does not allow or provide for any direct corporation transit tax because this lobbying group is primarily supported by corporations, banks and unions. Their position is for a direct citizen by means of a new 1% sales tax.

The question that has to be asked and answered by these career politicians, special interest groups, technocrats and bureaucrats is, where are the alternative proposals that call for a new direct transit tax on banks, corporations, non-profits and unions instead of the usual all party platforms for more citizen taxes and NOT corporate transit tax?

Not one of the ten funding proposal by these career politicians, technocrats,  bureaucrats or special interest groups and lobbyists call for a transit tax on corporations, banks and unions doing business in Canada.

For the media, special interest groups, Metrolinx and technocrats’ to suggest that Toronto’s property taxpayers and citizens on their own should fund public transit is totally unrealistic.

It is a self-serving political agenda by political parties of all stripes along with their puppet career politicians and businesses who themselves cannot get their hands out of the public trough.

Asking Torontonians to suck-up yet another little new sales tax increase of 1%, that over the years would quickly become 5% or more, would not come close to the annual BILLIONS of dollars needed to fund any new subways, let alone LRT’s or the current infrastructure requirements for existing operations and never-ending fare and salary increases of the TTC, is scandalous.

My proposed 1% Transit Tax on Banks, Unions, and Corporations operating in Canada could generate $ 6 Billion annually for existing public transit in Canadian cities, including Toronto.

The 1% direct Sales Tax on citizen proposed by the transit alliance special interest group, supported and financed by businesses, could only yield $1.3 Billion according to media reports, metrolinx and the city of Toronto.

A Transit Tax of 1% on Banks, Unions and Corporations would Generate 100% more funding for public transit than a 1% Sales Tax. 

ARTICLES:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/03/01/oakvilles_rob_burton_offers_the_unvarnished_truth_on_transit_james.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/immigration/article/1314937--james-transit-funding-debate-is-coming-at-the-worst-time-possible

http://timestoronto.blogspot.com/2012/10/transit-bail-out-with-1-transit-tax-on.html  

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1321441--kathleen-wynne-pledges-to-tackle-gta-gridlock

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Holidays Greetings to ALL

Let us remember those who gave their life so that today we can celebrate ALL the various holidays in our open democracy.

The best to everyone and your families, friends and associates along with many, many, many, many exciting, active and healthy years ahead for EVERYONE! 

Warmest regards,

Peter Clarke




Up Dates
http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/1299102--hanukkah-travel-menorah-lightings-around-the-world-mark-the-jewish-holiday

Real Meaning of Christmas @

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURToRRq7gM

Canada a Country of Law and Order or Insignificant Civil Laws, Bill C-43?

The editorial boards of various print media’s in Canada, who are not elected by the voters as a spokesperson for the community, hold the opinion that our Canadian laws are minor offences and trifle!

The Toronto Star, for example, is attempting to promote their editorial propaganda of not holding individual non-citizens of Canada, who reside in our land as guest under a permanent resident’s status, responsible for criminal activities.

There logic for the public good is that criminal actions of stealing other peoples property through shoplifting, common assault, dangerous driving that essential puts the lives of children, youth, the elderly and all law-abiding citizens at risk and causing public mischief, threatening damage to property or person are simply minor insignificant criminal offences that perhaps should not be on our law books?  

It’s bad enough that we have actual citizens breaking these laws let alone resident guest of this country!  

Mr. Ahmed Hussen, the head of the Canadian Somali Congress seems to agree with the Star’s position.

As he is concerned that Bill C-43 might work and thus “drastically increase the number of young immigrant male deportees without appeal,” because of such trifling offences.

For myself, I side with Alexis from the immigration ministry and agree as the vast number of Canadians would.

"It is easy for non-citizens to avoid deportation (without appeal privileges): do not commit crimes."

Finally, as citizens and not a guest of Canada we also should remember that newspapers and media outlets are commercial businesses with the imperative goal of increasing returns for their corporate and individual shareholders!

Editorial Boards are NOT elected representatives of the community and for the most part represent the ONE Per Cent of Society, in my humble opinion as a mere mortal.

Copy of Bill C-43

http://openparliament.ca/bills/41-1/C-43/

Source:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1289217--conservatives-bill-to-deport-foreign-criminals-goes-too-far

Hijacking Democracy Ontario Style

Political Parties 

Will it take a judge from a USA court to convenience Ontarians, Canadians and media outlets that shutting down our Ontario Legislature and thus democracy by Dalton McGuinty is an uncompromising personal act of oppression against the electorate? 

In my humble opinion a contemptuous act that breached the standards of responsibility and ethical-political moral conduct demanded of the office of Premier! 

To date, this Premier's shutting down of the legislature has further lacked any appearances of transparency in democracy or government and remains unchallenged legally by any political party, judge, law firm, corporation, union, lawyer or news media outlet on behalf of the residents of Ontario?

Do we no longer have lawyers, judges, law firms or media corporations that care enough about democracy and the rule of law or have an ethical and moral fibre necessary to ensure that Breach of Trust charges are at least commenced against McGuinty, his fellow liberal members of the now-defunct legislature and the liberal party of Ontario?

Also and unfortunately McGuinty’s intransigent and self-serving political actions went unopposed without a whimper when endorsed by the Honourable David Onley the so-called peoples Lieutenant Governor?  

Why is that the leaders of the NDP or the Conservatives political parties of Ontario continue to only make unrealistic or enforceable notices of motions as opposed to concrete legal actions in moving to the courts for legal demands that the Ontario Legislature be dissolved and that Dalton McGuinty and his liberal party members all be charged with Breach of Trust?

When political parties suspend the democratic process through shutting down Provincial Legislatures or the House of Commons they have effectively suspended civil liberties of both elected representatives and the public.

The bypassing of democracy in such a manner by a leader of any political party, federal or provincial in nature, before having such a closure come to a democratic vote by all elected representatives should be unconstitutional and a criminal offence in any transparent and honest form of democracy in the people's opinion.

However in Ontario it now sure feels, looks, walks and works as if all the so-called moguls be they media, political, business, unionists, legalistic, judicial or whatever all cover-up for each other's intransigent characteristics at the direct expense of democracy itself in my humble opinion as a mere mortal.

UPDATES:

Hi Peter:

I read the article.  This is an unfair interpretation of the prorogation of the Legislature which is a legal process and lies within our parliamentary tradition. Previous governments in Ontario have done it before – it is not a new and unprecedented action on the part of this Liberal Government.

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Thanks, Name Blanked Out, 

I appreciate your position and thoughts about leaders of a political party presently having the legislative process, questionable as it is for democracy when used, and the fact that it has been allowed by all political parties to remain as a parliamentary tradition does not make it a morally or ethically correct. 

The former war measures act was also a parliamentary tradition that was also not politically morally or ethically right and was subsequently changed after public awareness and democracy concerns.
 

I agree with you though that this is not the only unprecedented political action that the present provincial minority liberal government has taken under the party's leader Dalton McGuinty.

We both shall have to wait for the decision of the electorate on allowing any future governments and political party leaders of having the public's endorsement or non-endorsement for any governments continued use of prorogation procedures in the people’s legislature as opposed to the present political party's legislature. 

My strong belief about democracy is that individuals are elected by the voters to represent the voters first and then that candidates own affiliated political party. 

However today 99% of these political party candidates seek elected office primarily as puppet votes for the political party banner that they run under and to heck with democracy and the voters who actually elect them into public office and not a party office that in reality represents a membership of less than 1% of eligible voters and any given time.

Warmest regards,

Peter.

Contact your Provincial MPP @ 

http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do

A brief history of Ontario’s dysfunctional Governments 

@ http://thebiggreenlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/a-brief-history-of-ontarios-dysfunctional-governments/

The People Need Only Look at Ontario to Find Democratic Rot.

One does not have to look solely in Ottawa to find democratic rot as it is alive, rampant and flourishing here in the Ontario legislature.

McGuinty's uncompromising discontinuation of the People’s Legislature for oppressive political party purposes is an outright Breach of Trust.

A contemptuous act breaching standards of responsibility and conduct demanded of the office that represented a serious and a marked departure from the standards expected in his elected position of public trust.

He intentionally used the office for purposes other than the public good for an oppressive purpose.

McGuinty along with his fellow elected liberal party members and the political party he leads should all face criminal charges in my opinion.

The Honourable David Onley, the so-called peoples LG, should immediately recall the Ontario legislature and ask one of the other political parties or their members to form a government, 

As Lieutenant Governor David definitely has the moral and ethical authority, along with a constitutional one, to show leadership by acting on behalf of democracy.

And most importantly the people are behind him to ensure that the will of the electorate be respected now that the minority government has lost the support of the Legislature and the electorate. 

The law requires our lieutenant governor to ensure that there is a functioning legislative government is in place or otherwise call an election forthwith.   

Update http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1314339--lt-gov-david-onley-explains-prorogation-decision-cohn

Stories:

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/10/26/michael-den-tandt-semblance-of-normalcy-disguises-democratic-rot-in-ottawa/

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1278653--cohn-prorogation-may-look-like-prologue-come-the-new-year

Residential Property Taxes Discriminate Against and Soak Toronto's Middle Class.

Why should one property owner pay more for city services when all properties receive the same level of Toronto City services?

The value of a property for tax purposes does NOT increase the level of services that the individual property owners receive for water, sewage, police services, fire services, sidewalks, storm sewers, garbage collection, library services, social services etc for paying said grossly inflated property taxes based on property evaluation.

The arbitrary bureaucracy of the MPAC assessed value of residential properties by attempting to ensure that residential property values are fairly relative to one another should have nothing to do with the taxing process for municipal services.

All residential properties, regardless of such market values, receive the exact same level of municipal services no matter what any such perceived value might be. Residential property taxes should be an equal amount for all residents across the city as are the services provided and received.

All property owners pay for their respective use of electricity, water, gas and receive the identical municipal services no matter what the value the property has been given! Why then should a property valued at a higher value than another property and yet receiving the exact same city services have to pay higher taxes for identical services received by the lower valued property?

This present system of a so-called level property assessment value is a myth and in reality, has nothing to do with increased municipal services and everything to do with current unleveled municipal tax system using assessed real-estate values on varying sizes of residential, condo and business properties.

The city's residential property taxes should be an equal amount for all residents regardless of any arbitrary property values set by MPAC.

Toronto’s Board of Health wants to License Hookah lounges and Ban Patio Smoking?

As a non-smoker myself, I disagree with the chair of Toronto’s public health committee, a political anti-tobacco activist's with a personal political agenda at the expense and rights to the fundamental freedoms of Torontonians.

Including freedom of assembly, association, and other means of communication as guaranteed under our Canadian charter of rights.

This committee on the one hand for purely political reason continues its attempts to appease anti-smoking groups a major growth industry that has accomplished all of the reasonable and rational measures which the science can support.

Then on the other for solely monetary reasons seeks to license water pipe hookah patios and lounges?

The city’s Board of Health should and must stick to the health and safety issues mandated by the province for which the city receives 100% reimbursement.

Until such time as the province of Ontario mandates that smoking be banned on all restaurant patios throughout the province it is a not a health issue but rather a political one.

 

While anti-smoking groups thanks to their political allies have become a growth lobbying industry they must continually keep up the political pressure for more draconian legislation that takes away the rights of their fellow citizens in order to obtain funding and thus keep their jobs.

Society is well aware of the enormous monetary and political pressures faced by public health units and scientists whose financing to a great extent are controlled in large part by eliminates by special interest groups, lobbyists and unelected bureaucrats.

Perhaps that is why we have recently and continue to witness the abuse of scientific integrity through an unfortunate generation of faulty and questionable scientific outcomes in a number of prevalent issues pertaining to the environment and health issues through mischievous statistical acts and findings.

Yes, smoking is harmful and so is the elimination of the individual’s fundamental freedoms of choice, association, and assembly by other means of communication.

Other Stories:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1278818--dimanno-toronto-s-choke-out-for-smokers-escalates