I read with some interest the question of charging rural residents for urban water and sewer usage. In a word, “mindless”. It is however in keeping with the mentalities that got us in this position in the first place, “lacking”.

I agree with one correspondent who is willing to pay the proposed new levies provided they come back to him in consideration of his investment. It might even work out quite well if I could extend my development costs to the District of Muskoka as a loan of $35,000 they could pay back at say, 8.5 per cent over 15 years, on a monthly basis, plus maintenance and repair costs to the system.

If these individuals who screwed things up so badly think their solution has merit, then they should also think that it’s quite logical for the “screwers” who created the problem, to compensate the “screwees” by covering the costs out of their own pockets. Or they should resign because of incompetence in favour of people with more problem-solving ability, not just pass the buck onto the taxpayer so they can go merrily about making more mistakes, to be passed on infinitum.

I think you’ll find, however, their imagination will be limited to increasing rural taxes for some thinly veiled, cockamamy excuse to cover their butts and we’ll wind up paying for their mistakes anyway, then in a euphoric, celebratory mood, they’ll give themselves another raise.

Maybe I shouldn’t have made such a prediction. Collective mentalities considered, the thought may never have occurred to them.

Bob Murdoch

Gravenhurst