Calgary property tax hikes. These are preliminary numbers but they are on the table.

The numbers are mind-blowing. Surreal. Beyond belief.

Out of this world even for what you’d expect from out-of-this-world, money-hungry bigshots calling the shots at Calgary city hall.

The ugly arithmetic hits the street Wednesday supper time courtesy of Global Calgary. The incredible mathematics is from city hall but it was not released by city hall.

Presumably the high-and-mighties downtown were waiting to give Calgary taxpayers the punch in the gut at a later date.

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Mayor Farkas says the numbers are not the final word.

The mayor says just because the city hall boss paper shufflers offer up some impossible-to-swallow numbers it does not mean city council is going to accept those numbers.

Farkas says city hall politicians are going to ask city hall higher-ups very tough questions. The mayor says city council will hold the paper shufflers accountable for every dollar spent.

We’ve seen that movie and it almost never has a happy ending. Lights! Camera! Action!

You have to admit city hall brass have some nerve........

© Calgary Herald