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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
They will generate a great deal more homeless and poor, if history is any guide. Rents in London are already extremely high - noone really poor cannot afford them already. The only potentially damaging change would be rise of the council tax - but so far it was promised that it won't increase for the Olympics. Salt Lake City promised 2500 units of low-cost houing; only 150 were delivered, and prices for residential hotels increased 300%. The year before the Sydney Olympics, tenant evictions increased by 400%. In Atlanta, Project Homeward Bound gave the homeless a one-way ticket out of town before the Olympics began. In Calgary, none of the promised low-cost housing units were delivered, only a few university dorms. All those places had quite low housing prices to start with. Not Olympic-related, but Habitat 67, a low cost housing project for the 1967 World Fail in Montreal, became luxury condominiums. It was planned as "affordable" housing, not "cheap" housing. And it was planned to be several sizes of what was originally build - thus inflating the prices. And how will London's £600 million security budget be spent? In racist repressions, most likely. Paranoid much? Never gonna happen. Laws were passed in Sydney to allow increased surveillance, search and seizure, and military involvement in law enforcement, just for the Olympics, but, surprise!, they are still in force. Don't worry, UK is already surveillance society - nothing to change here. I lived in Montreal for the 1976 Olympics - great party, but the bill was only finally paid off in 2002. Yes, that were the most expensive Olympics in history, coupled with very bad management - not typical for the most other Olympics. I lived in Calgary for the 1988 Olympics - great party but a $910 million debt, and no measurable long-term economic benefit. Wrong! It turned a profit of around $150 million + significant regeneration of the city. Sydney was proud to host a "self-financing" Olympics in 2000 but still got burdened with a $2.3 billion debt. Pure speculation. Did you read article by Maryann Abbs and really believed it? And now London's TfL budget is being raided to finance construction costs, but they also have to deliver better public transportation for the games? WTF? Well, that was only speculation of journalist. The BBC one. |
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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
"Marc Brett" wrote in message ... And now London's TfL budget is being raided to finance construction costs, but they also have to deliver better public transportation for the games? WTF? Of course, what may actually happen is that the ODA will directly fund transport improvements, like the £104m announced today for Stratford Regional: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6457359.stm Paul |
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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:25:21PM -0700, alex_t wrote:
Well, I live in London only for a year (and 15 days), but I totally support the Olympics ;-) Then may I politely suggest that if you think they're such a great idea you pay for them? I certainly don't want to. Until you and like-minded people do that, I will vote for *any* political party that promises to cancel the games. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age What profiteth a man, if he win a flame war, yet lose his cool? |
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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
Then may I politely suggest that if you think they're such a great idea you pay for them? I certainly don't want to. Well, amazing logic. So... can I get a refund of all my National Insurance contributions? (as a migrant on work permit I cannot get any benefits, so why should I pay NI?) Also I'd like to get some of my taxes back, especially the part spent on roads (as I don't have a car), trains (as I don't use them), buses (don't use 'em either), child support benefits (as I don't have a family). And back in the real work - I live in London and pay my council tax in full, so I guess I already pay for the Olympics in some way. I also suffer from constant construction work - as I live on the border of the Olympic park site. Until you and like-minded people do that, I will vote for *any* political party that promises to cancel the games. It is certainly not up to me to decide whether Olympics should be in London (not to mention that I can't vote). |
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You know up here in Lancashire we got all this claptrap about some big games and athletics fiasco that was being held in Manchester maybe a couple of years or so ago ,was it the commonwealth games or something ? . Oh yes the fiasco was going to do wonders for the city of Manchester and would place no burden on the tax payers of Manchester in the event the fiasco did bugger all for Manchester except cause a lot of traffic congestion cost a mint in police resources and also put up the council tax for the people of Greater Manchester and two of the built venues are now unoccupied and dropping to pieces . Commonwealth games is minor event, which is not known outside Commonwealth (and I suspect not very popular inside Commonwealth too). Olympics are one of the most well known sport events with genuine interest worldwide. WHY ?????? . Because they stink! |
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:37:13 +0000, David Cantrell
wrote: Until you and like-minded people do that, I will vote for *any* political party that promises to cancel the games. You will vote for a political party that promises to do something that, legally, it can't? |
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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
To you and all people like you I have only one thing to say if you do not like the way you are treated in this country because no one asked you to come here . Please, elaborate, who exactly do you include in category of "people like me"? And in case if you didn't get my point from the original message - I was making a joke in response to David Cantrell's message. I find his suggestion to me quite stupid, since nobody has ultimate control over spending of their tax contributions (and in case if I still need to spell this out - I am paying all taxes, and not complaining). |
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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
Although I may not feel any direct attack on my wallet due to the games I feel sure this poxy government will invent some devious scheme to get more cash out of us all to help with the funding of the fiasco. Hear hear! |
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Mayor says no tax rise for Games
Well known for causing extra financial commitments for the host country the UK cannot afford to buy the games so it shouldn't. End of story. Well, actually - to be completely fair I'm slowly drifting to the same point of view: 1. The games could be managed much better (reusing existing venues, spreading venues around the country, etc). 2. There could be much more commercial sponsorship (as far as I remember last Olympics in the US were finances without any tax-payers money used). One could imagine banks with their super-profits participating in that. 3. And of course ability of New Labour to mess everything hardly adds any optimism. But still - Olympics are fun and interesting event. I was actually conceived during 1980 Olympics in Moscow ;-D |
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