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The Billboard Tax--Guess Who Pays It?
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THE STATE OF OUR TORONTO.
NOT ALL THE MONEY REQUIRED FOR THE NEW RIGHT-OF-WAY STREETCAR SYSTEM TORONTO’S DEPARTING MAYOR DAVID MILLER WANTS TO LEAVE THE CITY AS HIS "LEGACY" HAS BEEN DELIVERED BY THE FEDERAL OR PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS. THE CITY IS STILL SHORT A FEW HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS AND NEEDS TO FIND WAYS TO GET THAT MONEY. FROM YOU.
The billboard tax will be paid straight out of your pocket.
Congratulations to the current city council for coming up with yet another way to squeeze money out of the citizens of Toronto. A new tax entitled the Billboard tax is a disguise for the new money grab.
Ostensibly, billboard owners will pay the tax, which they will be able to afford by raising the advertising rate to advertisers.
The advertisers are companies that sell things to you. The advertisers will be able to afford paying higher prices for billboard space by raising the price of their goods and services to the consumer.
The consumer is you. This means that the city will, in the long run, be dipping into your pocket for more money. Not very nice.
If the city wants more of my money, why can’t it ask for it in a more straightforward manner?
Take a look at who’s advertising on the billboards now, and watch their prices go up. And never come down, even if the billboard tax were to be removed some day.
But it’s a neat gimmick.
The city could impose a "city travel" tax on fuel trucks delivering in town. Then, the trucks would have to charge more money to the gas companies, who would have to raise the price of gas to cover their potential losses. So, they’d charge more for gasoline. And you would pay the freight. Literally. The city could then blame the raise in the price of gas on the Federal Government, since the Feds are the ones sort of "in charge" of gasoline sales; and walk away undetected. Whoo-ee--ooo! Do you think they've done other things like that Billboard tax already? It seems like too good an idea to miss.
I'm all for creativity. Let's get in on the game. We can have fun finding ways to disguise more taxes on Toronto’s population.
The city could impose a tax, for example, on cardboard packaging. Just think of the numbers of things that come in cardboard packages. What a windfall!
This is an easy game to play. Think of something you need, like an occasional drink of juice, milk, or water, for instance. Then, something that the manufacturer of drinking fluids needs, like plastic bottles, for example. Then, think of something the plastic bottle manufacturer needs, and tax that.
Simple.
An answer might be that plastics manufacturers in general need plastic extrusion machines. Find a way to tax those machines, (how about higher electricity prices on factories that use heat-processing systems?) and everything that comes in a plastic container will cost more to the consumer in the long run.
Pretty neat, eh?
And sneaky too, wouldn’t you say?
How about a name for this con game, like “Third-hand taxation”, so there can be a charge against it in case the cops ever catch on?
Of course, instead of being creative in terms of finding ways to gouge the citizenry to make up its "legacy to Torontonians" shortfall, it might be possible to get creative in finding ways to eliminate the shortfall altogether, by not incurring it in the first place.
But what would the fun in that be?
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