Calgary Solar Letters to the Editor for August 16, 2023

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Not fixing the precise downside

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In a current letter the author means that individuals who have an issue with rising rents ought to merely purchase housing and lease it out at lower than market value. That is foolish.

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A handful of people underselling their property won’t remedy a market failure just like the housing affordability disaster. It’s only a trite excuse to disregard the issue. Let’s cease pretending that people appearing towards market incentives can remedy market failures.

SAMANTHA BUCHANAN

(So that you’re saying masking the signs gained’t repair the issue? You couldn’t let elected officers learn about this loopy idea?)

Extra bylaws gained’t ever sort things

 How a lot time was and can be wasted at metropolis corridor on bylaws? Foxtail barley all on metropolis property, nothing finished about it. Signage to shut to roadways, nothing finished about it. Bicycle owner using fallacious approach down bike lanes dashing by means of faculty zones and purple lights , nothing. Automobiles and vans doing lower than 80 km/h on Deerfoot, nothing. Take away building signage and obstacles when not engaged on the positioning. Nothing finished about something. Give up losing my money and time. 

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LEE RANDELL

(Enforcement may use some work, eh?)

Simple arithmetic

With unrelenting inflationary pressures negatively affecting all however the wealthiest of us, we’re lucky that the federal authorities nonetheless ‘has our backs’. The ever-increasing Liberal carbon tax and rebate program allegedly supplies an financial profit to most of us. Nonetheless, if Canadians bought extra again in rebates than they pay in inflated prices, why would they frequently really feel a lot poorer? Might it’s that whereas budgets don’t stability themselves, they nonetheless require a steadily growing contribution by residents and a hope that taxpayers, similar to our prime minister, don’t take into consideration financial or fiscal coverage? Fortuitously for our expensive chief, they principally don’t.

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Al Willey

(Possibly sometime he’ll perceive.)

Damaged down

Trudeau is breaking Canadian spirits along with his carbon tax enhance. It’s induced greater meals and family prices whereas the 5% rate of interest impacts mortgage and bank card charges. Authorities’s uncontrolled spending didn’t enhance overseas funding and job development, however the reverse appears to have occurred. All whereas politicians nonetheless take lavish journeys even in our failing economic system. Unhappy to say decrease revenue households concern homelessness as a consequence of excessive priced properties, leases, mortgages, meals, and utilities. It’s destroying household budgets.

PETER J. MIDDLEMORE Sr.

(The unhappy actuality for a lot of is the price of dwelling is simply too excessive.)

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