How do you boil a frog?
December 12th, 2013 | 12:00 PM
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How do you boil a frog?
Ontario considers provincewide gas hike to pay for transit
TORONTO — Ontario drivers should be pumped for more cash to pay for transit infrastructure, a panel advising Premier Kathleen Wynne has recommended.
Making the Move: Choices and Consequences, released by the Anne Golden Transit Panel Thursday, has laid out two options to pay for new infrastructures projects through the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area.
Option A calls for a provincewide increase in gasoline taxes starting with 3-cent a litre in 2015-16, rising another cent a litre until drivers are paying 10 cents more a litre in taxes.
Fully implemented, motorists would be coughing up an extra $2.6 billion more in gas taxes a year.
On top of that, the province would still increase corporate income taxes by 0.5%.
Option B recommends a 5-cent-a-litre gas tax, also provincewide, a 0.5% hike in corporate taxes and a portion of the HST be directed to transit infrastructure.
“It’s a sin tax for drivers,” PC MPP Doug Holyday said, blasting the idea of a large increase in gas taxes
Making the Move: Choices and Consequences, released by the Anne Golden Transit Panel Thursday, has laid out two options to pay for new infrastructures projects through the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area.
Option A calls for a provincewide increase in gasoline taxes starting with 3-cent a litre in 2015-16, rising another cent a litre until drivers are paying 10 cents more a litre in taxes.
Fully implemented, motorists would be coughing up an extra $2.6 billion more in gas taxes a year.
On top of that, the province would still increase corporate income taxes by 0.5%.
Option B recommends a 5-cent-a-litre gas tax, also provincewide, a 0.5% hike in corporate taxes and a portion of the HST be directed to transit infrastructure.
“It’s a sin tax for drivers,” PC MPP Doug Holyday said, blasting the idea of a large increase in gas taxes
December 12th, 2013 | 02:33 PM
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Wynne is doing all this and she has not been elected yet, she replaced the other crook when he resigned! I think we are being screwed in ways that only a VIKING could think of.
We are paying a very high gas tax as it is and I haven't been on public transit in twenty-five years as it doesn't go anywhere near where I'm going.
Steve
We are paying a very high gas tax as it is and I haven't been on public transit in twenty-five years as it doesn't go anywhere near where I'm going.
Steve
December 12th, 2013 | 03:45 PM
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*points and laughs* Did a Canadian really just post that?
Call it BS all you like, I've been paying that transit tax for decades. I pay lots for services I don't use ... so do you.
Call it BS all you like, I've been paying that transit tax for decades. I pay lots for services I don't use ... so do you.
December 12th, 2013 | 04:29 PM
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I feel your pain. The Washington State government is planning a 10 cent a gallon added gas tax here as well making us the highest gas tax state
In two years they convert these taxes into the general fund then we start the gas tax war again. Just went up 9 cents over the three year period
In two years they convert these taxes into the general fund then we start the gas tax war again. Just went up 9 cents over the three year period
December 12th, 2013 | 06:07 PM
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I prefer #4 - Crunchy Frog. 
We all pay a portion in sales taxes here in the dallas area to fund public transit. Of course there has been a lot of other ideas being tossed around, too.
One recent method of charging 2 bucks a day to park at the busiest stations ended up costing them more in the long run. All it did was made people park at other stations or quit riding.
The contractor in charge of enforcement profited well though.
Yes, we all pay for services that we do not use, all part of taxes I guess...
We all pay a portion in sales taxes here in the dallas area to fund public transit. Of course there has been a lot of other ideas being tossed around, too.
One recent method of charging 2 bucks a day to park at the busiest stations ended up costing them more in the long run. All it did was made people park at other stations or quit riding.
The contractor in charge of enforcement profited well though. Yes, we all pay for services that we do not use, all part of taxes I guess...
December 13th, 2013 | 11:43 PM
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A year or two ago the city of Lawton passed a sales tax increase to buy 2 new school buses. A proposition failed which would have increased property taxes to buy an additional 6 school buses. Since taxes are a necessary evil at least implement sales taxes which will impact everyone.
December 14th, 2013 | 02:59 PM
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Ontario considers provincewide gas hike to pay for transit
Montreal area drivers pay $30 per car per year on their license plates that goes to fund mass transit.
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