Editor:
Why would any rational, thinking individual vote ‘yes’ in the upcoming funding referendum (Mayors call for referendum, Jan. 1)?
Ask yourselves, is TransLink not the same body that mismanaged the issuing of tickets for fare violators knowing they could not collect them?
What about the fare-gate and Compass Card debacles?
And what about the exorbitant salaries, bonuses and perks of senior management rivaling – if not surpassing – those available in the private sector?
Would they still have jobs in the private sector?
When will we learn the only real source of government revenue comes from the power of taxation? And that means taxpayers like you and me.
So send yet another message to governments at all levels who continue to spend the dollars they take away from us as though they were their own.
Vote ‘no’ on the referendum.
It is time to go back to the drawing board – or perhaps just time to select a whole new board.
R.W. (Bob) Davies, Surrey