DC wants acongestion tax and to tax sweetened coffee and tea

[Anonymous]

Wow. I’ll go there even less now https://wtop.com/dc/2019/05/too-many-cars-dc-to-consider-tolls-congestion-pricing/

[Anonymous]

Perhaps some of the issues mentioned in the article could have been alleviated by the ~$500k used on that bogus “study.”

[Anonymous]

The post title is misleading. They're just doing a study. However, I'm sure DC won't miss your 2x/year visit to the Air and Space Museum.

[Anonymous]

I live downtown if true I would move to MD or VA. I'm not sure why DC thinks this is even remotely ok when the friggin metro barely works. Not everyone Ubers.

[Anonymous]

I see the tax for soda and sweetened beverages will raise. If the tax for drinks is going from 6% to 8% and will now include coffee and tea, I'll just BMOD (bring my own drink) and begin drinking more water. It's free. I'm not sure why DC feels the need to regulate people's health and lifestyle choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The post title is misleading. They're just doing a study. However, I'm sure DC won't miss your 2x/year visit to the Air and Space Museum.

NP. That was quite a leap. I used to go multiple times a week, but no longer. I don't miss it as much as I would've thought (born city kid), because it has lost some of its edge. It has become more and more like Anywhere, USA, and not as worth the extra sheckels to go there. I think the big money tolls will make it a bigger bubble.

[Anonymous]

A congestion price, if done right, would be a great idea. How many times have you been stuck in traffic and cursed all the other drivers who are slowing you down? They are, and you are slowing them down too. A congestion tax would deter a few drivers, making it faster for everyone else. Ideally, the money raised would be dedicated toward public transportation, as is planned in NYC, making it a win-win scenario.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live downtown if true I would move to MD or VA. I'm not sure why DC thinks this is even remotely ok when the friggin metro barely works. Not everyone Ubers.

1. Moving to Md or Va won't help you if you work in DC. The congestion charge presumably would not only apply to DC residents

2. Plenty of people do take metro. And yes, it mostly works. Its safe, and IMO not really less reliable than the roads.

3. People also take buses into dowtown DC

4. People bike and scooter into downtown DC

5. People carpool in - that could be exempt from the charge, and if not, you would split the charge, making it not much of a burden.

6. OTOH if you uber, the charge probably would be passed on to you. One benefit of this would be making all those Ubers pay for the congestion they are causing.

7. Its just a study.

[Anonymous]

Uber is like kudzu and harms everything in its path. It is much more congested because of Uber and Lyft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The post title is misleading. They're just doing a study. However, I'm sure DC won't miss your 2x/year visit to the Air and Space Museum.

It's ok. I'll take great delight in knowing that as a DC resident, you'll be paying far more for this scheme to punish suburban rubes like me than I ever will on my twice yearly visits.

Tax away, please!

[Anonymous]

DC does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. In its insatiable search for more and more taxes, it will just create more opportunity for the mayor to provide favored consulting contracts to her cronies and for a couple of far left members on the DC Council to further boost social benefit levels significantly above the levels provided by neighboring jurisdictions. And then they wonder why social services needs keep rising in the District.

[Anonymous]

Guess the trips out to MD to visit MIL will stop. And the twice daily trips to the pool in MD for swim practice. And private school. And grocery shopping. And. And. And.

This is a bad plan for DC parents unless DC residents are exempt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I’ll go there even less now https://wtop.com/dc/2019/05/too-many-cars-dc-to-consider-tolls-congestion-pricing/

Please stay away.
DC doesn’t like conservatives. Smart people live in DC.

Stay at Liberty or Hillsdale, stay in your wingnut welfare job, and keep watching Fox News.

Us DC people will worry about making out city happy and liveable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uber is like kudzu and harms everything in its path. It is much more congested because of Uber and Lyft.

Uber and Lyft are putting more cars on the road while simultaneously weakening public transit.
A dense city like DC needs better transit.

Anyway, I live downtown. I only use my car on weekends. Too many cars drive fast in DC and threaten pedestrians.
I’m for a congestion tax- let’s get cars off the road.

[Anonymous]

Great, a tax to enter the Capitol. Poll taxes next!