Parking no longer free on Saturdays in MoCo lots starting 7/8/23

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Honestly, you sound so privileged. You sound like a rich brat to me. I grew up dirt poor here in Montgomery County with my parents not owning a car. We took the bus everywhere and it took hours of our lives to get to work, to get to school, to get groceries and basic necessities. It took two hours every morning to get to work because of bus transfers. To get home from the grocery store, with everybody, holding two bags of groceries, it would take us about 40 minutes. As soon as my parents could scrape up enough money to buy a car, they did, and it vastly improved our lives. So get off your high horse, talking about walking and taking the bus everywhere.

I don't drive, my taxes shouldn't pay for your free parking, you rich, entitled brat.

And I’ve always said that extreme left-wing and extreme right wingers are different sides of the same coin. Right wingers don’t want to pay or have their tax money go towards abortion, welfare, or any kind of social services the same way extreme left wingers don’t want to pay for “ car storage” or public roads.
It makes me laugh the whole lot of them.
They are all the same brand of crazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Honestly, you sound so privileged. You sound like a rich brat to me. I grew up dirt poor here in Montgomery County with my parents not owning a car. We took the bus everywhere and it took hours of our lives to get to work, to get to school, to get groceries and basic necessities. It took two hours every morning to get to work because of bus transfers. To get home from the grocery store, with everybody, holding two bags of groceries, it would take us about 40 minutes. As soon as my parents could scrape up enough money to buy a car, they did, and it vastly improved our lives. So get off your high horse, talking about walking and taking the bus everywhere.

I don't drive, my taxes shouldn't pay for your free parking, you rich, entitled brat.

And I’ve always said that extreme left-wing and extreme right wingers are different sides of the same coin. Right wingers don’t want to pay or have their tax money go towards abortion, welfare, or any kind of social services the same way extreme left wingers don’t want to pay for “ car storage” or public roads.
It makes me laugh the whole lot of them.
They are all the same brand of crazy.

The people who don't want to pay, here, are drivers who don't want to pay for parking their own cars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Honestly, you sound so privileged. You sound like a rich brat to me. I grew up dirt poor here in Montgomery County with my parents not owning a car. We took the bus everywhere and it took hours of our lives to get to work, to get to school, to get groceries and basic necessities. It took two hours every morning to get to work because of bus transfers. To get home from the grocery store, with everybody, holding two bags of groceries, it would take us about 40 minutes. As soon as my parents could scrape up enough money to buy a car, they did, and it vastly improved our lives. So get off your high horse, talking about walking and taking the bus everywhere.

I don't drive, my taxes shouldn't pay for your free parking, you rich, entitled brat.

Let’s play this game.

I don’t use the Library, my taxes shouldn’t pay for your library books.
I don’t have kids in school, my taxes shouldn’t pay for your kids education.
I don’t use county parks, my taxes shouldn’t have to pay for your recreation.
I don’t take the buses, my taxes shouldn’t have to pay subsidize your public transportation.
Anyway, it’s been fun playing this game with you, but I’m done with your obnoxious entitlement.

You are the only entitled one here: asking for me to pay for your car storage. Do you know what the word entitled means?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

Gee I guess that's why NYC has so many failed businesses - no parking!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

Gee I guess that's why NYC has so many failed businesses - no parking!

Moco isnt nyc. Wow, is stupid are you? Where’s our subway system with the most stops in the world like NYC? Really, really piss poor comparison and logic on your part.

I think we are arguing with a teenager in high school, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Fix the problem then. What solution you got so a grocery store run doesn't take 4 hours and you can move millions of people all over the county.

Let me guess,.you have the typical list of really stupid ideas the bike idiots always try to propose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Fix the problem then. What solution you got so a grocery store run doesn't take 4 hours and you can move millions of people all over the county.

Let me guess,.you have the typical list of really stupid ideas the bike idiots always try to propose.

I'm working on it. What are you doing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Government’s job is to promote safety and convenience and sponsor projects that cannot be efficiently and economically coordinated by private industry. It is not the government’s place to engineer society or to deprive people of the right to choose for themselves between reasonable alternatives. America is a mobile society. The idea that driving is evil is gaia worship nonsense. Behemoth buses and trucks create huge amounts of pollution and are deadly to other vehicles and pedestrians, but all we ever hear about is private passenger transportation. It’s a silly product of a narcissistic, controlling mindset that considers nothing, however inconsequential, to be too insignificant that somebody else shouldn’t be telling people what to do.

You're absolutely right! And yet, for the last 90 years, that's exactly what government has been doing: engineering society to make private cars the only realistic transportation option for most people. It's long past time we stopped doing that.

The free market has made private cars popular. Government has facilitated that, both as a service and because roads are (or used to be) militarily significant. The first thing people in developing countries do when they are economically able to is acquire their own transportation. If public transit is do fabulous an idea in practice as opposed to in politics, why are the railroads run by the .gov; why are the buses and subways run by what amounts to the .gov (and endowed with its sovereign immunity); why are the people “who make the rules” not on public transit instead of .gov provided vehicles, sometimes with drivers and even motorcades? If public transit was so great the various “ride share” services never would have gotten off the ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Which is why we make parking easier, so that local businesses thrive.

But this is moco, where the county does everything in its power to kill jobs, kill businesses, and stifle economic growth. No surprise.

No, when we make parking easier, we get a lot of roads, traffic congestion, parking lots, and car crashes, none of which contribute to economic vitality or help most local businesses. It's true that car crashes are good for car-repair, tow truck, and car-sales businesses, though.

Fix the problem then. What solution you got so a grocery store run doesn't take 4 hours and you can move millions of people all over the county.

Let me guess,.you have the typical list of really stupid ideas the bike idiots always try to propose.

I'm working on it. What are you doing?

Why should I have to do anything? I pay taxes.

Until there is a solution, I will drive. And you can eat my exhaust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Honestly, you sound so privileged. You sound like a rich brat to me. I grew up dirt poor here in Montgomery County with my parents not owning a car. We took the bus everywhere and it took hours of our lives to get to work, to get to school, to get groceries and basic necessities. It took two hours every morning to get to work because of bus transfers. To get home from the grocery store, with everybody, holding two bags of groceries, it would take us about 40 minutes. As soon as my parents could scrape up enough money to buy a car, they did, and it vastly improved our lives. So get off your high horse, talking about walking and taking the bus everywhere.

I don't drive, my taxes shouldn't pay for your free parking, you rich, entitled brat.

I don’t have a kid in public school. My taxes shouldn’t pay for schools.

See how it works when you want to turn everything into a user fee?

If you want to live in a state without funded education, go for it. See how that works out for you.

(Hint: education benefits everyone, car parking does not)

Jesus the people on the board have gotten dumber.

Again, funding only the government services you like isn’t how government works.

I think that the county should get out of the parking business too but until the council voted to sell the lots the county is in the parking business. If we actually had demand sensitive pricing in Bethesda right now parking would cost less than it does most of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Government’s job is to promote safety and convenience and sponsor projects that cannot be efficiently and economically coordinated by private industry. It is not the government’s place to engineer society or to deprive people of the right to choose for themselves between reasonable alternatives. America is a mobile society. The idea that driving is evil is gaia worship nonsense. Behemoth buses and trucks create huge amounts of pollution and are deadly to other vehicles and pedestrians, but all we ever hear about is private passenger transportation. It’s a silly product of a narcissistic, controlling mindset that considers nothing, however inconsequential, to be too insignificant that somebody else shouldn’t be telling people what to do.

You're absolutely right! And yet, for the last 90 years, that's exactly what government has been doing: engineering society to make private cars the only realistic transportation option for most people. It's long past time we stopped doing that.

The free market has made private cars popular. Government has facilitated that, both as a service and because roads are (or used to be) militarily significant. The first thing people in developing countries do when they are economically able to is acquire their own transportation. If public transit is do fabulous an idea in practice as opposed to in politics, why are the railroads run by the .gov; why are the buses and subways run by what amounts to the .gov (and endowed with its sovereign immunity); why are the people “who make the rules” not on public transit instead of .gov provided vehicles, sometimes with drivers and even motorcades? If public transit was so great the various “ride share” services never would have gotten off the ground.

Public transit nimrods always fail to realize how friggin big the US is. It takes 14 hours to not even drive half way across the country. There are tons and tons of areas you cannot access without a car and you'd never be able to build financially viable public transport. These delusional clowns think we can get everywhere without a car like we are Tokyo Japan everywhere even though vast portions of the country have population density that is more on par with the likes of Finland. Public transportation just isn't economically feasible for huge portions of the country and would take forever. No one wants to spend an entire day just to be able to go to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council is so good at figuring out new ways to take our money! This is on top of recently raising property tax rates and the recordation tax, of course.

"On or about July 8, 2023, Saturday payment will be required in garages and lots. Rates and hours requiring payment will be the same as the rest of the week."

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Parking/FAQ/using-meters.html

Poor drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Poor county council, nonprofits, snd community activists. Whatever will they do without more taxpayer money!!!? We gotta make sure they can eat!

Eh. "Free" parking subsidizes drivers and driving. End driver/driving subsidies.

End lunch subsidies, housing subsidies, electric power tool and car subsidies, solar panel subsidies, etc. etc.

End it all!

That's an unnuanced view of public policy. In the nuanced view, we subsidize behaviors/actions we want to encourage, and remove subsidies from behaviors/actions we don't want to encourage. We want to encourage kids having lunches, people having housing, and clean(er), local energy sources. We don't want to, and don't need to, encourage driving.

Honestly, you sound so privileged. You sound like a rich brat to me. I grew up dirt poor here in Montgomery County with my parents not owning a car. We took the bus everywhere and it took hours of our lives to get to work, to get to school, to get groceries and basic necessities. It took two hours every morning to get to work because of bus transfers. To get home from the grocery store, with everybody, holding two bags of groceries, it would take us about 40 minutes. As soon as my parents could scrape up enough money to buy a car, they did, and it vastly improved our lives. So get off your high horse, talking about walking and taking the bus everywhere.

I don't drive, my taxes shouldn't pay for your free parking, you rich, entitled brat.

I don’t have a kid in public school. My taxes shouldn’t pay for schools.

See how it works when you want to turn everything into a user fee?

If you want to live in a state without funded education, go for it. See how that works out for you.

(Hint: education benefits everyone, car parking does not)

Jesus the people on the board have gotten dumber.

Again, funding only the government services you like isn’t how government works.

I think that the county should get out of the parking business too but until the council voted to sell the lots the county is in the parking business. If we actually had demand sensitive pricing in Bethesda right now parking would cost less than it does most of the time.

That's because there is a whole lot of parking in Bethesda that sits empty most of the time. Waste of money, waste of space.

[Anonymous]

I didn't mind paying high taxes when my kids were using MOCO schools, but not anymore! It's someone else's turn. I'm leaving this state.