Posted on 04/27/2015 5:58:08 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are asking lawmakers to put a new tool in their toolbox, so to speak: a parking surcharge that could eventually fund downtown amenities like pedestrian walkways and bike paths.
Proposed legislation would allow the Twin Cities to impose a tax on non-metered parking, including stalls in public and private ramps and surface lots, within a defined area of their respective downtowns.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.twincities.com ...
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We need to Tax DemocRATS ONLY, since they like tax, so much!
If the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul want this and want to tax themselves to pay for it then I say OK.
I would not be OK with it if they are getting Federal matching funds ... which is quite common for these kinds of things.
Pork is always on the menu
The Minnesota Marxists are at it again.
First, COmrade Secy of State Mark Ritchie.
Then SOmalis Jihadist Central.
Now, a Marxist tax on “space”.
What then? A statue to Marx, Engels and Stalin/Ho/Castro in the mains squares in St. Paul and Minneapolis? I’m surprised that they don’t have them there already.
Sounds like Minnesota all right.
There’s no Lenin statue because they’re saving that space for Al Franken.
That’s enough to keep the squirrels out of the park.
Indigo in Philly. Poor, elderly pay for rich people’s bikes. thousand of them. None in west philly past about 44th streen or north philly past lower temple campii about 7 blocks north of me. http://www.rideindego.com/
Build enough bike paths that I can commute off-road >15 miles each way to work 3x/week. (Well, OK, when it’s warm out.)
I’m getting tired of getting cut off by entitled Prius drivers.
Stop buying stadiums for billionaires.
Yep - funny how they use taxes to 'level the playing field" by making all folks pay for what only a few folks actually use. If they want to generate revenue for the un-metered spaces, meter the un-metered spaces...
They make pedestrian travel dangerous as well. Quite a few pedestrians have been injured or killed by cyclists.
~4 feet of pavement x 7.5 miles = X$/Y bikers / years of wear and tear. There’s the cost of licensing bicycles to safely meet not only the law of the land, but Newton’s version as well.
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