They benefit from Metro’s demise?? Really? That’s how they look at things?
By that reasoning, anybody who buys a car to drive to work, rather than depend on Metro, should be taxed extra.
Anybody who rides a bicycle, should be taxed as well.
Anybody who buys new shoes to walk to work, anybody who informally forms a carpool arrangement, to avoid Metro, then also needs to be assessed a Metro tax.
Anybody who quits a job in Washington, and gets a job elsewhere, who decided not to deal with Metro to get to work, then also needs to be assessed a Metro exit tax, because they benefit by getting a new job outside Metro’s jurisdiction, but Metro still suffers.
I’m being a bit sarcastic but just to make the point, that government officials seem to think that everyone, and every business entity, somehow owes them money.
They do think so, no sarcasm intended.
Don’t laugh to hard, D.C. once proposed a tax on those who wanted to move OUT of D.C. and a payroll Tax on anyone working in D.C. that didn’t live there.