Dear Editor:
RE: Province needs ‘reality check’ when it comes to funding to replace speed camera revenue: Lennox, Dec. 4.
I would like to suggest that it is Mayor Andy Lennox who could use a reality check when it comes to revenue from the “speed tax.”
We are arguably the most heavily taxed society to ever walk the face of the Earth, yet the speed tax proponents would like to continue fleecing the public at every opportunity.
Using the speed cameras to generate millions of dollars is simply a “tax” and no amount of weasel words or rhetoric changes that.
When a government as useless and bloated as the Doug Ford gang calls you out on a clear-cut case of gouging the public, you’ve obviously hit a new low and perhaps need to reflect a little.
Instead, and in what appears to be a true sore-loser moment, they’re stomping their feet like petulant children and insisting they’re keeping the cameras to gather traffic info? It’s transparent and embarrassing, really.
Perhaps in a true democracy we could actually have a public vote, referendum or type of plebiscite on issues such as this. But alas, instead we’re forced to listen to the greedy moaning of stuffed shirts like the mayors and chiefs of police who lined up lock step to support an obvious tax grab in true “let them eat cake” fashion.
“A tax makes the road safer” – brought to you by the same geniuses that think a tax can change the weather.
Peter Beilke,
Wellington North