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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make the NIMBYs who blocked it pay the costs.

This is why nothing ever gets done in the US.  Too many NIMBYs.[/quote]

Absolutely.  I think Montgomery County needs to pay the bulk of the extra costs regardless of the which path the state opts for.  The state should just decrease the money that Montgomery County gets budgeted from the state next year.[/quote]

Or how about levying a tax on Chevy Chase MD instead to capture the hundreds of millions their ridiculous frivolous law suits cost the state?[/quote]

Sorry, life doesn’t work like that. No matter how much you want to punish people who worked harder and are more successful than you. [/quote]

This has nothing to do with how hard they worked, how successful they are, or how wealthy they are.

The tax is because they are the ones responsible for the cost overruns due to frivolous lawsuits that added delays and millions of dollars of expenses just because they wanted to increase their property value, even though they purchased said property at a discount due to the Purple Line route going through their back yards.

These NIMBYs should have to pay for all of the costs that their lawsuits added to the project.[/quote]

So a small group of people in Chevy chase tried to stop the project and you are going to punish the whole area?  Does that seem fair to you?

Plus, this would send a very dangerous, and arguably illegal, precedent of retaliating against people who try to oppose government actions through the legal process.

Obviously you disagree with the objectors, but if we say that people bringing environmental claims (or other claims of government misconduct) will have to pay for costs if they lose, we will prevent possibly worthwhile lawsuits from going forward.  You can’t just say you disagree with their lawsuit so they should be punished without also accepting that people, for example, opposing Trump’s wall on environmental and other grounds could face the same punishment.[/quote]

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