Who Holds the Purse Strings?
The mayor and city council of Toronto, Ont., Canada, promised to be more “transparent” than their predecessors, so local taxpayers were upset to learn they had secretly voted themselves a 12.25 percent pay raise over the next four years, on top of their current salary of C$85,497, retroactive to the first of the year. When confronted by their angry constituents, the politicians had an excuse: They “don’t remember” voting for their own raise because the motion was “buried in a confidential report on salary increases for non-union staff.” (Toronto Sun) ...So they’re not tax-gougers, just incompetent. That sounds much better.
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