> "Essentially, to keep property taxes low, we’re sacrificing the money that we’re spending on maintaining roads, libraries, parks and all of that other stuff. When you add all that up, we start to be a city where more and more of the things you rely on are rusted out, leaky, cracked, broken and having to close from time-to-time while we do patchwork repairs."
In order to keep taxes flat, Toronto is deferring state-of-good-repair spending: https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2019/02/11/how-a-budget-with-less-money-for-repairs-could-leave-toronto-rusted-out-leaky-cracked-broken.html
