... the "school tax" is on property value. They're starting it this way because they can get away with this socialist class warfare bullshit about "rich people." Ride your bike through Shaugnessy. These are modest homes for a large family, these are not huge country estates. They happen to be worth a lot of money, but so what?

Mark my words, if the NDP imposes this tax, the threshold will eventually be reduced to $1 million and then pretty much everyone in Vancouver who doesn't live in a concrete shoebox will end up paying General Revenue for the "privileg" of not living in a USSR-style tenement.

Please. If they actually cared, instead of cutting jobs and services, they would cut their own salary from 10x+ that of their average employee to something reasonable and put it back into their employees. They really don't care about doing "the right thing", it's shareholders and their own bank accounts above everything else.

I live in Shaughnessy. They are not "modest family homes" by any means. There are a few 'normal' looking older houses, but they're mostly uninhabited, owned by speculators who are waiting to tear them down. Most are 3000 sq ft +, half acre lots, with Teslas and porches parked out front. Anyone who thinks that they're hard done by for being taxed on these properties is deeply, frighteningly out of touch with how most people live and severely lacking in empathy.

Why do the whoa is me and poor them crowd think they can legislate their own version of empathy? Always quick to spend the money of others. There is zero empathetic about another tax, another program, another thing to grow out of control with zero to show for it, but more people seeking programs. Wake up, pull your weight, live your own life. Looking at "the rich" with such distain and envy is unhealthy and most of that negative energy is really just eating you up. Trust me, the rich don't give a shit what you think of them. And that is perfectly fine. It's you lot that are broken.