Anything to raise taxes.
The next pedal-pusher that cuts me off illegally and flips me off because I didn’t see them breaking the law and I almost hit them...
RAMMING SPEEEEEEEEEED!!!
I’m too lazy to post the picture tonight.
Why tax everyone for an item only used by a few?
Just another sure - fire way of wiping out downtown business, just like parking meters did.
“Let’s raise taxes today for some pie-in-the-sky pleasant-sounding outcome at some indefinite point in the future, after I’m out of office.”
Here’s how this works.
Learn to manage the revenue you have.
You don’t NEED anymore money.
We don’t need city and state employees “retiring” at 50 with 90% of their salary and then picking up another full time job.
The list of waste in local gov’t is as bad as it is at the Federal level.
Just make people that ride a bicycle pay a fee of $5,000/year!
I think a steep tax on bicycles, bicycle tires and accessories is in order to pay for their use of publicly funded roads and trails by bicyclists.
Metered parking never brings in as much revenue for a downtown area as is lost in sales tax due to the vast majority of suburbanites refusing to go anywhere without adequate free parking.
Subsidized mass transit can keep commerce going in high population density areas.
What percentage of the twin cities population doesn’t drive?
If most people have vehicles, build free parking garages instead of this crap and revitalize commerce. If people don’t drive, pay down the debt.
Or they could simply cut back on a teensie weensie bit of government waste and have the same amount of money to fund those things. But hey, where’s the fun in that.
The IRS has been trying to do this for decades.
Put a tax on shoes and bike tires. Let the people that use it pay for it.
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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.
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/