Why don’t we have one form of government covering municipal, provincial and federal. Just confiscate our paychecks then pay our mortgages or rent (maybe confine us to row houses), utlilites, ration groceries as they see fit, and supply transit to take us back and forth to work to pay the taxes.

I didn’t vote Sherry Green in but like every one else I knew that she was getting in for mayor. The thing here is that we as tax payers are going to have to do is to vote in a block just as they do in Quebec. It’s the only way we as tax payers can ensure that we get a fair shake from our vote.

I didn’t vote Sherry Green in but like every one else I knew that she was getting in for mayor. The thing here is that we as tax payers are going to have to do is to vote in a block just as they do in Quebec. It’s the only way we as tax payers can ensure that we get a fair shake from our vote.

Because we’d lose too many ‘jobs’, acrider54.

And not only that, even if the ‘One Big Government’ kept all the people that work for the various levels of government we have now, or it did not, it still couldn’t pay all its bills from taking 100% of all our paychecks, and 100% of all the profits of every business. It would still have to go into debt. Only then it would become obvious that if it was taking 100% of all incomes and profits there would be no way it could repay that debt.

Which should be obvious now. But it isn’t.

Let’s see here;

“5.78% more than last year”

“…which is 7.84% more than was required from Prince George last year.”

Inflation rate is about 2% per year!

Anybody see anything wrong?

See if they sneak in a raise.

“If” they could seek a raise – then Mayor & councillors sitting on regional district would be double dipping :)

Acrider was just being facetious by suggesting the government does our finances. He wasn’t veryfar off when you figure out how much oil companies are running the government as suggested on opinion 250 this morning and to which I have to concur. It is outrageous that Canada has such an abundance of hydrocarbons and we do not have a trans Canada pipeline or Canadian policy protecting Canadian supply of fuel!!

Exactly what I was being Surefire :)

Tell the Regional District to pound sand. Maybe they will discover it is oil sand. ;-)

Remember, when we pay our taxes, there is only part of it which goes to the City. So here is the regional district part. Where is the SD part? And where is the Hospital part?

Let us see all together in one spot and who is doing the best with keeping taxes down.

Oh, can we hear from those who have always commented that they have moved to the outside off the PG city limits.

How do they feel about the tax increase?
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I find it strange that PG is paying a higher percentage of the total RDFFG taxes when the census shows that the outer ring around PG has grwon in population at a higher rate than the City.

It would be interesting to see how the PG portion is calculated.

Based on the above figures last year PG paid around $6,864,170 towards the RDFFG total of $16,161,855 which works out to 42.47%

This year the PG component is 43.3% That is an increase of almost 2% in the increment we are paying.

How will our representatives on the RDFFG be voting on this? Will our Mayor be voting in favour?

I just realized that with people moving to the outskirts, the RDFFG is increasing its tax base, and we are reducing our tax base.

Maybe soon not only will our downtown be the hole in the doughnut, but virtually the entire City will be the hole in the doughnut.

Time to form a GPGA – Greater Prince George Area government.

I suspect the city limits will be expanding in the near future…

I think the people on the outskirts would have something to say about that. I don’t think the city can just willy nilly annex an area without the approval of the people affected by tax increases, etc. And where would they expand to where the increase in tax base would be substantive enough to warrant the expense necessary for the expansion?

I do live in the RD and am okay with the tax increases as the cost of living rises we have to pay for it, just the way life goes. I don’t mind having to pay for essential services such as 9-1-1 and solid waste. I hear lots of complaints about why we don’t recycle, especially plastic, but the cost of actually recycling is huge, to actually recycle something, you need to do something with it, not just separate it and put it in a bin and say “oh I recycled that”, recycling means being able to reuse! So if some of that budget gets us moving on making the city and earth a better place, I say its good. What I AM NOT happy about is that we pay for police service which we have no benefits from. We have called the police several times about people partying in our area and they tell us they have one officer assigned to the rural area so we may or may not get assistance depending on where that officer is and what he/she is dealing with! Those of us that live in the RD don’t get to vote for the City Mayor yet the Mayor makes up part of our Council that makes decisions for our area, how does that work?! Taxes and tax increases, like it or not, are just another part of life!

I would think that the City RCMP polices the area withing the City boundaries. If it does more than that and the City pays for that without compensation from the province or the RDFG, I would love to hear about that. You know, the more one talks and writes about it and the more people get involved in that discussion, the more one starts to understand where the gaps in knowlege are. They are vast, even with the relatively well informed people.

I would think that the RDFFG would be served by the north district station located on 5th avenue. Perhaps they have an agreement with the City detachment to provide services outside the city limits.

“where would they expand to where the increase in tax base would be substantive enough to warrant the expense necessary for the expansion?”

The boundary would be the Prince George Census Agglomeration which is defined by population density.

Exactly and if you look at the boundaries on pgmap you see that anything outside the current boundaries is pretty sparsely populated compared to the area of habitation.

Or I suppose they could do like they do out in pineview and haldi areas. Supply no services, such as water and sewer and very little road maintenance, yet charge huge taxes because a lot of the properties are 5 acre lots.

guesswhat its not done for free. Outside of the highways on any given day there is only one cop patrolling the RDFG. When backup is required city cops come a running. I do not know how compensation is paid to the city for this.