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Mar 16 2011, 03:00 PM
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Of course, Rob also met us there and we chatted with him for a bit. He had explained to us on the phone that his property taxes had just gone up 5%, and since he owns a lot of properties, this is really going to gouge him this year. Interestingly, Rob's father is a former mayor in Brockville, and his first budget, they froze property taxes, and now his father is quite upset about the 5% rate hike. It wouldn't be so bad if they're weren't rent controls imposed on landlords in Ontario, Rob explained to us. Rents can only be raised 0.7% per year under the current scheme. It's a sure way to put small business owners like Rob out of business.
It's really amazing that we can connect with people on Twitter and Facebook on the fly like this and meet up with them if we're close by. Five years ago, that wouldn't have been possible.
Rob commented again on Facebook after this, and here's what he said: "WOW. Talk about ask and you shall receive. There it was at 6:30 parked in front of Brockville City Hall, the Debtclock in person. Great to meet Derrick and Scott on their cross county trek to get the message out. Very worthwhile cause and every Canadian taxpayer should thank taxpayers.com for exposing government waste." A big thanks to Rob for contacting us!
Once Rob and the media had left City Hall, we had literally just turned off the clock's generator to save gas, when we heard someone say "Awww, it's off now."
There was a guy with his daughter of about 10 years standing behind the open doors of the trailer. He had heard us on the radio in Kingston and heard that we were going to be at Brockville's City Hall at 6:30. Of course we fired up the clock once more for them so they could get a photo and check out the numbers. We explained the per capita amount on the bottom and how his daughter already owes more than $16,500 to the federal government alone. She made the comment, "too much shopping," a simple but accurate analysis.
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