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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Imagine if you're in a traffic jam, and someone said you could get out of it for $8. Sounds good to me.
But $8 a day dounds like a lot, doesn't it? How many people go shopping every day? It only really adds up for commuters, who are the biggest target for moving to public transportation.
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Monk, do you LIVE in DC or just work there? You are paying exactly this kind of "levy" to the District of Colombia from your paycheck if you are commuting from Virginia, then. I lived in Roslyn and worked on K Street, and every paycheck I was deducted for "using the roads and public safety services", even though my car came into DC rarely. I used public transportation, but I was still CHARGED, without my consent or knowledge, for passing through, as it were. That was 40 years ago, and knowing how governments have become ever more rapacious, Virginia commuters now are probably paying 10 time what I did.
They also tried to instigate the same kind of tax when I worked in San Francisco but commuted from Alameda. Like: You are coming into our city in droves and wearing out our roads and the seats of chairs in our restraunts so somebody has to pay us, and besides that you "use" our police when our residents try to rob you, etc. Some of the business leaders confronted the City about it, however, and bluntly told them that they better look around them because businesses were already in full flight from San Francisco to more "user-friendly" cities in the area, and if they wanted to empty the streets to save wear and tear, that could be arranged. The City backed down that time, but I imagine by now it is back and in spades. And businesses continue to leave San Francisco for more reasonable locations. I never thought I would say it, but San Francisco nowdays is run by policies that are TOO LIBERAL FOR ME TO STAND
Never thought I would say that. Eh.