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Letter of the day: Taking charge of tax dollars
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BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS City arbitration board chairman Harvey Secter hears arguments over police pay on Wednesday.
Re: City police demand too much (Editorials, Feb. 2). The police do deserve higher wages. The students do deserve compensation for tuition. The country is facing hard times and this is when all of our leaders should be talking with their constituents and trying to find common priorities among them and weeding out projects or other things that will have major price tags and little value. This applies to all levels of government.
I don't believe that Canadians are unwilling to pay for safety nets, for programs, etc. I do believe that so many things come to light about the management of taxes and contributions that indicate waste or misuse that they are afraid to leave it up to government to make the decisions now without consultation.
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I have been saying for quite some time that the government could allow taxpayers to donate a percentage of any income tax return to the department of their choice on a voluntary basis; for example, health care. Of course, one has to think about how to do that without incurring a great cost in collecting it. It seems simple enough to assign and make an adjustment to the return.
It would be understood that the departments would not have the established funding cut if they received donations. It would represent what the public saw as important, and localities could set up similar things.
KATHRYN ROSS
Winnipeg
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Re: Homeowners face big hikes in school taxes (Feb. 1). It's the same story every year. Cut the programs if you have to. School-board officials put out feelers every year about huge increases, get people upset (like me) and then lower the figure a bit and everybody is happy (not me).
Who gets an eight per cent increase in anything today? These people, like firefighters and cops, feel that the world revolves around them and that the public should bow to their demands. It's about time that politicians get some you-know-what and stand up to this nonsense.
KEN OERTEL
Winnipeg
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 3, 2012 A11
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