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Owning a small business hardly makes it worthwhile anymore,
As some one who employs under 10 people, With all corporate taxes,
WSIB, payroll deductions, etc, it does not leave whole lot of profit.
Were already taxed to death Tony, and you want higher taxes??

I don't have the numbers quickly on-hand but I've heard it claimed we've got one of the lower business tax rates in the GTA- it's how we're able to lure the bigger buisnesses to move their headquarters such as 3M.

As for the original subject transit: I ran across a story I did for the Halton Compass in January of 2010, on the postponement of an Enivronmental Assessment for GO expansion on the Milton Line until the spring of 2011. I'm about to figure out what happened, because obviously it wasn't done. All day trains at one point moved beyond the talking stage.

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If I was the honorable Premier Kathleen Wynn, Tim Hudak, or Andrea Horwath I would impose a tax on corporations that employ more than 50 people of 2%. We badly need it.

Best Regards.
Tony

Tony Lambert
Town & Regional Councillor
Wards 1,6, 7 and 8
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Tony is the maverick this town, province, and country needs to fight for the common man.

Everyone is overtaxed in Canada, from the poorest to the richest. The last thing our provincial/federal governments need is even more revenue to waste. We have way way way too many people taking advantage of "social programs." It's not a safety net anymore, it's a lifestyle for a huge portion of people (whether that means welfare, going on EI every year, disability for 'mental conditions', excessive 'baby bonuses' for welfare queens, and other giveaways). On top of that, companies in certain industries get tons of giveaways (grants) if whatever they're doing suits the desires of bureaucrats.

Sure, there are lots of corporate scams in this country. The banks and the telecoms come to mind, and they're entirely protected and enabled by the government. Canada has a lot of corporate oligopolies, and they're all created by government regulation and protectionism (and in the case of the banks, privatizing the profits and socializing the risk via CMHC). Ditto for why we get gouged on virtually everything we buy... Our marketplace is a walled garden rigged to have minimal competition in many sectors. Rather than more taxes, how about we enable more competition? Rather than more revenue, what about more focused spending and less throwing money everywhere?

Tony - How can you say we don't have enough money in Milton for roads when we're spending money on sports centers, arts cetners, and velodromes? How can you say the province doesn't have enough money when we're spending $8 billion on worthless windmills, billions on streetcars, hundreds of millions on free daycare ("full day kindergarden")?

That's the Milton way isn't. Need funding for something - add a levy - hospital - infrastructure reserves!

God forbid we actually have to come up with innovative ways of dealing with our problems or even tried and trusted ways like cost effective delivery of services. I am sure the Corporations that we need to attract to Derry Green that are comforted by our high Development Charges will receive further comfort from the knowledge that one of our Councillors sees them as undertaxed!

Martin

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Tony, if you tax those businesses with a two percent surcharge, who do you think will end of paying for it?

Businesses will just pass those extra costs on to its consumers. So, in the end, we are still going to pay for it.

I agree with Martin on this issue and many other forum posters. This cycle of just upping taxes instead of being creative and finding solutions in killing Milton and Ontario.

If we resolve the gridlock, more people will be attracted to Milton and recreate gridlock.
Lets keep Milton the SNAFU that it is. It's our only remaining defense against obscene growth.
Norts is voting PRO-GRIDLOCK! Yes, sir.

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Tony,

Is the widening of hwy. 25 from Britannia to the 407 on schedule for this year?

Sure, it must be. The question is - to whom?

First of all, why gridlock?

To me the answer is - major roads are too narrow and some of them have village speed limit.
Look at Mississauga - they build this city with wide major roads with speed limit which makes sense.
Ontario Street speed limit at 50 makes no sense. The only real reason to keep it at village speed limit is for convenience of quick cash grab for cops who are stationed nearby.

Another example of gridlock creation in Milton is Thomson between Derry and Main. To me it was always in question why they made it so narrow in relation of how many houses including condos are going to be dumped at east side.

Does no right lane turns in Milton creates gridlock? No doubt to me.

My first reaction - Milton roads are planned by people without vision and knowledge to support this city grow at the speed close to explosion.
Is it a problem to find more experienced road planners?
Or may be it is not source of the problem, but necessary and adequate to this city grow roads plans are not approved due to the cost excuse? If it is the case, it must be addressed as problem of village mentality of decision makers , while Milton is not the village long time ago.

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Good morning 2ndline,

Yes, this year. In fact the widening of Highway 25 between the 407 and Lower Baseline is out for tender from Halton region right now. When the weather is permitting in the Spring, we will start the actual widening. Also, this year the Highway 25 widening from Derry to Britannia will be finished. In the winter, there is a shut down of construction, due to the weather. Have a great weekend everybody!


Best Regards,
Tony

Tony Lambert
Town & Regional Councillor
Wards 1,6,7 and 8
www.tony-lambert.ca

Shhhhh. Tax and spenders would prefer you just ignore that little tidbit. They would also like you to ignore the fact that large corporations generally give away all their profits to pensioners and other investors, pay higher wages, and drive most of the innovation in the world. They prefer to look at things more simply. See pile of cash. Take pile of cash. Spend on pet projects. Voters happy.

If you just stop there, and ignore that your driving up inflation, screwing consumers, slowing the pace of innovation, and robbing people who invest in these entities… it’s not a bad plan.

Keep up the good work Tony.

"Houston, we have a problem".

The province has officially backed away from two way all day train service to Milton and Georgetown. If you look at earlier posts on this thread, I stated it is crucial that we have that support from the province, our partner in growth. The goal of the BIG MOVE from Metrolinx is to maintain transportation service levels of 2008. Without the province giving the 150,000 people moving to Milton options such as trains all day to get to work and back, our regional roads will become even more gridlocked. For anyone who has been here as long as me (10 years), we are talking current Derry Road reverting to the brutal situation it was 10 years ago. Unacceptable.

Today Halton Region's Planning & Public Works Committee said no thanks to the province asking us to grow, without transportation commitments to just maintain current transportation levels on our roads (which are less than 2008). Now it goes to full Regional Council next week for ratification. The report can be seen here that prompted the Regional Councillors to put a brake on future growth unless the province changes their stance regarding Milton http://sirepub.halton.ca/pubmtgframe.as ... ype=AGENDA

As I mentioned, next week this report and it's recommendation from Planning and Public Works comes before all of the Regional Councillors. I can tell you ahead of time, I am voting to put a stop to growth next Wednesday unless the province provides us what we need: -1- A GO station at Trafaglar and Derry -2- All day two way train service.

If the province will not help us, I am not going to sit back and allow growth to inconvenience my constituents.



Best Regards,
Tony

Tony Lambert
Town & Regional Councillor
Wards 1,6,7 and 8
http://www.tony-lambert.ca

Tony, what we really need are buses running from 7am-9am and 4pm-6pm taking people where they want to go (to work in Mississauga/Oakville). We have Milton Transit, maybe we should use it to get people to Mississauga? Crazy thought, I know. GO probably did surveys realizing that it's not going to be a very popular survey. Do you know about the results?

Also, saying NO to more growth in the Derry Green Business Park area is a bad idea. That's what will create jobs in Milton and get people off of their dependance on Toronto.

How does all day GO train service help alleviate the real problems at rush-hour? It would be cool for me twice a year when I go to downtown for some festival or show or something, but not worth the cost I would think.

Hi cactus_jack,


Good afternoon. I don't mean to annoy you by calling it "gridlock", but the definition of gridlock in the Oxford Dictionary is: "a situation of very severe traffic congestion". How can all day train service alleviate congestion? You have to keep in mind that our regional roads like Derry and Britannia were not always congested during rush hours. But with the growth, we changed that. Fine. The BIG MOVE by Metrolinx was supposed to just maintain 2008 transportation levels on our regional roads. What I mean is the time it takes for you to get to Toronto from your home to your work. This time required has been increasing rapidly as we have been bursting at the seams with our growth (by law by the province's Places To Grow Act 2005). OK, we (the Region of Halton) agreed to add 6,000 to 8,000 people to Milton each year for the next 25 years, because the province said my constituents would not be stuck in traffic by the province providing motorists options (trains). Just think about it, without more trains, our regional roads cannot handle 150,000 more people moving to Milton over the next 25 years. In that time we will be 250,000 with the same regional road capacity.

This is extremely frustrating, but I am pushing back. We (Milton) are forced to grow by the province, because the province requires us by provincial law, to approve more development, for another 150,000 people in our town without ANY increases in their ability to get to Toronto or Mississauga. Unbelievable. Anyways, the only thing I can do is try to stop the growth, as to not add more to the gridlock. And I will.


Thank You,
Tony

Tony Lambert
Town & Regional Councillor
Wards 1,6,7 and 8
http://www.tony-lambert.ca