Same old story.

Calgary city hall has money to burn.

Same old story.

Calgary city hall tells us they are in tough times. The city has so many needs. The cupboard is nearly bare. You just don’t understand how hard they’ve got it.

It’s the same old story on Tuesday at Calgary city hall, not so affectionately known as the Cowtown Kremlin, the place where your tax dollars go to die.

We find out, as of the end of last month, the city has a $221 million surplus for this year.

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When city hall wants more tax dollars from you they tell you they need your money and more of it. Desperately.

Months later, they have a big surplus. Yahoo!

That money gets socked away in the city hall’s rainy-day fund.........

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