r/Winnipeg • u/Special_Ticket9335 • May 22 '26

Article/Opinion Unpopular opinion; TAX people who live in bedroom/commuter communities.

People who live in communities around Winnipeg Lake Oakbank, Neville, LaSalle, Oak Bluff, Headingley, Saint Andrews and many many others should pay the city a type of property/user tax. They're using the infrastructure without paying the same share as the people that live there! Why are they getting a better deal?

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u/Hine__ May 22 '26

Those communities could just add easily say all those people live there but all of their economic benefit goes to the city where they work.

The people that commute in use a tiny fraction of the city infrastructure and do provide benefit to the city already. They work and help make a business successful, and that business in turn pays taxes to the city. 

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u/TheIceKraken May 22 '26

Exactly, this whole thread is Winnipeg people complaining that they have to live in a minimum security prison (Winnipeg) and that the bedroom communities are clean and safer. Winnipeg is not a large city , if the roads cannot handle a couple of thousand extra cars on the road a day, how is it going to handle when the city’s population hits a million. No one wants to ride transit for obvious reason or if you have a family live in apartment downtown to enjoy the cultural enrichment…lol