02-01-2018, 12:37 PM
(02-01-2018, 12:33 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(02-01-2018, 12:29 PM)MidTowner Wrote: I wouldn't call $2 billion a substantial part of Ontario's $130 billion budget. But it's true that it will have to be replaced, somehow, and I think that a distance tax is probably inevitable. I imagine that, in most places, it will replace the gas tax revenue and then some.
Hey! A billion here, a billion there - after a while it starts to add up!
But the point is, it only adds up to two.
Also, that's 2b out of 130b of Ontario spend, municipalities spend at least that much again. It's actually a very small fraction of total government revenues in Ontario.