City Financing - The One-per-cent Solution

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City governments want to pinch a pennies, but not in the way we hoped. Canada’s big city mayors, led by David Miller of Toronto suggest that it is a matter of “inarguable” fairness that municipalities deserve a one cent share of the GST. They say cities are the engines of the economy, but severely underfunded and in need of cash transfers from the federal and provincial governments. The GST propos