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So commercial real estate (which provides a large amount of tax revenue to DC) is tanking---especially in downtown. DC needs to be doing everything it can to get people to come downtown and spend money because downtown is slowly becoming a crime-ridden ghost town like it was in the 1980s and 90s. Not everyone is a 30 yo bicyclist. People coming downtown for a business dinner aren't going to be cycling. People taking grandparents and kids to the Warner Theater for a show are not going to bicycle and older people with mobility challenges find metro difficult. If you want to discourage people from driving themselves, then don't tax the uber drivers.

[b]People coming downtown for a business dinner or going to the warner theatre can't afford an extra $2?[/quote][/b]

This is the type of "soak the rich" mentality that contributed to DC's decline in the 80s and 90s.    Downtown is in freefall.  Now is NOT the time to pile on.   The tipped wage legislation has already resulted in higher restaurant prices.  Now let's pile on and make getting to the restaurant more expensive, so that increasingly it is only the very wealthy who can afford to come into DC.  
 If they had wanted to do this surcharge in 2019---pre-covid when downtown was booming---that might have been different.  But people actively avoid downtown now---both for work and for pleasure.  Nadeau and Allen seem determined to return downtown DC to a crime-ridden hellscape.  [/quote]

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