Sal Rahman

Cities covering the cost of social services is being labeled as “bad news.”

That label is doing a lot of ideological work.

In reality, this may be the beginning of a long-overdue shift: moving the cost of running a city away from workers, and toward those who own the land.

This shift is good news, not bad news!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-municipal-downloading-quantified-9.7032840

#Canada #LandValueTax #Georgism #CanPoli

B.C. municipalities say they're on the hook for millions that the feds, province should fund | CBC News

B.C. municipalities have long complained senior levels of government have “downloaded” costs and responsibilities onto them. Now some cities have tried to quantify how much they’ve taken on — and they say it could cost them millions.

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@manlycoffee

Have you considered, however, that the higher governments are setting the standards the municipalities must meet?

Telling someone they have to meet X standard, but not providing the budget to do so, nor allowing the necessary taxation authority to raise the required revenue, is simply unacceptable - for landowners, the municipality citizens, or its business and industry. It guarantees dysfunction.