Members of a taxpayer advocacy group say government officials shouldn’t be using tax dollars to pay for an airport in Inverness.
Paige MacPherson, the Atlantic director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, says tax dollars shouldn’t be used to build an airport for a private golf course, especially when the business plan doesn’t prove the need for one.
She says Cabot reps should show their work and prove the business case- if there is one- for an Inverness airport.
MacPherson tells The Hawk Cabot reps should pay for an airport themselves if they want one, not taxpayers.
“A golf course airport is a luxury item that, frankly, the golf course owners can pay for themselves- this would certainly be considered a want, not a need, when it comes to the use of tax dollars,” she says. “It’s hard to find a more absurd use of the limited tax dollars that we have in Nova Scotia, and across Canada, than a luxury golf course airport.”
MacPherson says the money could be better spent improving the province’s health care situation and fixing roads.
She says tax dollars shouldn’t be used in this case.
“It’s not to hand over money to wealthy business owners for the sole purpose of benefiting one big business in the province,” she says. “That’s not why we pay taxes.”
MacPherson says government officials also shouldn’t be using tax dollars to pick winners and losers in the local air travel industry.
