Taxation Woes

All City of Saint John operations need to be subject to efficiency standards. The burden on home owning taxpayers is out of proportion. The amount of property taxes paid in Saint John by Irving companies and Irving family is huge(go find the numbers if you're interested in the truth and NOT the BS rhetoric that they don't pay); the city does suffer significant wear and tear from the presence of this economic activity. But its NOT the lack of paying taxes that puts us under the gun; its the amount of property tax paid by city businesses of all sizes that is sucked out of the city by the provincial tax system and re-distributed to other "have not" areas that is causing the problems. We are left to fight among ourselves as the economic wealth generated in this place is displaced to subsidize other un-sustainable areas of the province. There in lies the real story! EQUAL OPPORTUNITY has created un-equal challenges for the citizens of Saint John and now we live with civic dis-harmony. Its time to turn the anger in the direction it deserves. We are participating in the act of "killing the goose that laid the golden egg" and that goose is the City of Saint John.