On Dec. 16, 1773, exactly 250 years ago, a group calling itself the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in Boston Harbour and threw 342 chests of British tea into the ocean. Most people have heard the story of the Boston Tea Party and the fact that the people had reached the point where they were simply not going to tolerate any further taxes.

But most of our elected representatives seem to have collectively missed those classes in American history.

How else can you explain that at a time when Calgarians are struggling with grocery prices, utility bills and high interest rates, our city council feels this is the right moment to add more taxes to cover the costs of bloated project budgets and wild climate crisis schemes. The new year has not brought any more logic to their taxation demands, but rather has seen taxes being piled on.

The city approved a nearly eight per cent increase in residential property taxes at a time when market value assessments are already climbing by........

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