游鱼

过桥费的确增加了岛外居民的费用,但可能没有$1400之高.因为过桥费的实施,一定程度上缓解了高峰期的交通压力, 岛外居民上下班的交通时间会缩短, 交通油耗会有一定幅度下降,现在油价高,相比过桥费$3.00,相当于2.3L油, 而节省的时间至少1HR/天.
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如此说来, 过桥费$3.00/天,实在没有足够的理由导致岛外的房子降价. 而且,岛外的宁静和清新,安全的确不是岛内可以比的,房价更不用说.

oakwoods

Sorry, can't resist to write something here. Just my wild thoughts after having been here for a couple of years.
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% w* T6 p" r2 F3 c& HAll the governments are the same - they are greedy and want to collect as much easy money as they can in the form of tax and miscenaneous fees. Some are leaner, cleaner, and more efficient, not because they are "good" and "lenient", but because they are monitored and controlled more effectively by the poeple. Having been in US for quite a few years, I have a deep understading why Canada, especially Quebec is no where on par with US in many aspects. Here whenever the governments (especially the greedy governments in Quebec) need more money, they alwasy instinctively want to increase tax or fees instead of controlling the wastful spending, especially the irresponsible spending of the easily money on those lazy and inefficient government and public agencies/organization (look at how much benefit the government employees are enyoying (a revenue agency employee or a cashier at an Metro ticket booth may make much more money than you think). The government does not create wealth directly, and it only services the public, so any heavy government (and a lot of money spending associated with it) would only drives the capable and money-making people away to other places (like US) and thus hampers the development of economy.

Here we pay a lot more tax, and don't really enjoy a lot more benefit (especially for a working middle class). It is true that some of the tax goes to the elderly and disadvantaged people, but a lot of money is irresponsibly spent by the government. Almost everything we buy here is more expensive than in US (with lower net income), some of which is reasonable, but many are not justified. Even for the service from the government which we support with more tax, we pay much more fees. We pay many dollars for a driver's license a year in Quebec (a few dozens in Ontario), and in US, it is typically about $10 for 5 years (in the stats I stayed a few years ago). Here to visit a national park, one car pays about $17 a day, while in US, (again, a few years ago), I only had to pay $10 a week, and $20 only for some big parks like Grand Canyon.
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Yes, corruption exists in the government, and it is hidden and looks legitimate.
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2 ~8 \0 n. ?9 S" J$ SSomething to think about why a country like Canada is different than the neighbor with the same culture...