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As a result, under Nenshi and that clique of big spending leftwingers that dominate city hall, taxes will go up 13% this year and will have gone up over 30% over the last three years since Nenshi got elected.
Holy crap! Makes me wonder if something fishy was going on with the books prior to the current mayor taking office.
In the absence of a thorough provincial audit that should be targeted at the last decade of Calgary city hall activity we'll probably never know. My own suspicion is that the smiley-face nature of civic politics covers up a lot of wrongdoing, neglect, and active thievery. In reality, despite the boom of the last few years, Calgary's really only increased in size by about 25%. Yet the spending at city hall has increased almost 80% in the same space of time. The lack of interest that most citizens apparently have in local government, as shown by a civic election turnout that rarely breaks the 30% of eligible voters bothering to cast votes, is quite appalling and is the only real explanation as to why the city remains incessantly under the control of these types of irresponsible big spenders.
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