Winnipeg's city council will vote on the preliminary operating budget for 2006.

Too often, Winnipeg's leaders were obsessed with false comparisons of spending and taxation levels with other jurisdictions. Talk of comparisons usually led to attempts to justify more revenues as opposed to more restraint, as it was the case in former Mayor Murray's "New Deal" initiative that would have expanded city taxing powers.

These comparisons rarely consider the overall size of Winnipeg's government with other cities, and almost never factor in the lower cost of goods, services, labour and living. Comparisons were usually loaded to suggest that Winnipeg needed more, not less, government.

Forget the comparisons: City Hall should ...

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By: Adrienne Batra
Posted: March 20, 2006
Topic: Manitoba

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