BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). This letter is in response to a letter regarding a new luxury tax, published June 11.
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I agree 100 per cent with Peter Bursztyn’s comments.
My wife and I, who are both in our 80s and support a disabled son, live on just my Canada pension and our combined social security. We are being asked to pay city taxes and since we live in the annex, in the very south of the city where we do not receive many of the city’s services, in my opinion, we are being gouged and I am not happy with it, but the rich who can afford it are less liable to pay their fair share, since they want to hold onto their gains and can find ways in which they can avoid paying their fair share.
The Conservatives concern themselves with looking after business rather than the average family.
Anthony J. Palmer
Barrie
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