If you’re one of those folks who’s been complaining about your fast-rising property taxes over the past few years, you might want to sit down for a minute.

Because more is on its way.

A staff report that council will receive at a special meeting of the general issues committee on Thursday says Hamilton taxpayers are facing an 8.9 per cent tax hike next year.

Of course, we know that initial number is never what actually gets passed. It always comes in lower than that in the end. And Mayor Andrea Horwath has already vowed that will happen again this time.

But the report says that even in a best-case scenario — if a variety of levers are pulled and some financial voodoo is performed — the number would only be reduced to around 6.6 per cent. Which would still be the highest increase in the

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