Is anybody watching the threat emanating from the 'Empire Builders' of St. Catharines City Government?
Well, in case you missed it, the empire builders are making their case that their empire needs $20 Million a year to bring their empire up to their desired standards!
According to their own formula $20 Million equates to a 17% Property tax increase!
St. Catharines, once 'the shining city on the hill' now reduced to surviving on service industry predicated on allowing their once thriving and prosperity producing industries to slip away without so much as a whimper!.
Prosperity producing industries such as: Anthes eastern furnace, Eaton Yale and Towne tow motors, Ferranti Packard Electric, General Motors, Hayes Dana, Dominion Chain, Cunningham Foundry, Columbus McKinnon, etc., etc. plus the supporting industries!
St. Catharines won't be the first municipality to try to tax its way to a prosperous set of sparkling city venues at the expense of its suffering neighborhoods! Examples available!
Now we have a new shining example of myopic governments paying $Millions to bribe prosperity producing industries to come to the rescue of financially failing communities.
How could this happen? How did this happen?
It happened when our government leaders became a cabal of service industry members lacking appreciation of the necessary origin of prosperity producing entities because if society doesn't Farm it, Fish it, Manufacture it, Mine it in order to bring in the wealth needed to sustain everything we desire then unprotected property owners will suffer!
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