Cutting taxes should be city’s top priority
By Lethbridge Herald on March 5, 2025.
Editor,
Our house assessment went up $53,000 in just two years with no additions. Get real, Lethbridge, you money grubbing shysters! The house is decaying under my feet and needs new furnace/air conditioner. The roof has so many years on it that insurance gives you nothing for hail damage. Neighbouring houses have turned into multi tenant rentals. The new owners don’t cut their lawn or replace the roof. The renters overflow their garbage and recycling bins. Does Lethbridge take any of this in account? No, they go by city selling price in an insane market. The higher selling price won’t matter when we sell as we have to live in an inflated housing market.
Hopefully, the new council will put a halt to building monuments and conserve money. No, we don’t need them full time. Cut the taxes.
Fred Karg
Lethbridge
6-5
I agree that our taxes are too high and projected to increase dramatically. I’m concerned the city has not done enough to reduce spending and it’s time we elected a council that focuses on reducing our taxes. There will be residents that will be forced to sell as the cost of maintaining their home continues to rise while their income remains stagnant.
It’s not a case of the city not cutting spending it’s a case of the Province not funding the municipalities properly, just like our healthcare and education systems that are being put in a horrific mess and doctors and nurses continue to leave.
Of course our taxes are too high but it’s not the fault of our Mayors or councillors who always take the blame. It’s the fault of these Reformers who continue to help the rich steal the peoples oil and corporate tax wealth and underfund our municipalities putting them in a horrible mess. Why is that so hard to understand? We estimate that Albertans have lost $1.2 trillion since the Klein days and it hasn’t happened in Alaska or Norway. Nor was it happening under Lougheed.