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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only progressive nature in MoCo is to get progressively worse.[/quote]

You want to be able to store your private car for free on public property? That sounds like socialism.[/quote]
dp.. free?  We already pay a lot in taxes.[/quote]

So you support free buses and Metro? [/quote]
for certain groups, I do, actually.

We already pay taxes on cars, gas.  I'm ok paying a small amount for county parking, but I do think that MoCo likes to tax everything and anything, and also spend on dumb things.[/quote]

Ok, then free parking for certain groups too.

Your car and gas taxes do not come near covering the costs of roads and parking. Most of that comes out of general revenue, which comes from everyone who pays taxes, which is everyone.[/quote]
we also pay property tax. Homeowners and car owners pay more taxes than those who don't own homes or cars.  And that's fine, but it's not like people who drive cars are getting more "free" services than those who don't.[/quote]

Homeowners and car owners also use more services than renters and non-car-owners.

Not to mention the parking fees are really nominal ($2/hour). If you're not going somewhere because you would have to pay $2/hour to park, it's not about the money. I mean, I get it, I also feel emotionally (irrationally) like I shouldn't have to pay for parking, so I generally park at a distance and walk the rest of the way, if possible. Or I go by Metro or bus or bike. The rational reality is that, in lots of places in the county, we're not paying [i]enough[/i] for parking. We should be paying a lot more. [/quote]

Using your logic, we should be paying to use public libraries too. Readers and library users consume more county and public resources! [/quote]

I mean, it's certainly possible to have a general discussion about which county services should be free, and which county services should require fees. In such a discussion, "I think parking should be free for me on weekends because I pay gas taxes" would not contribute much, in my opinion.[/quote]

Because you clearly do not own a small business or restaurant or have any vested interest in the financial health of areas like RTC, which for years has struggled with high vacancy rates due to patrons being turned off by parking issues.  Oh what a brilliant plan, let's make it harder for people in the county to patronize businesses, as if MoCo's job killing philosophy isn't enough already.

You're probably some delusional cyclist who thinks people can bike everywhere and some nasty supporter of DIVE MoCo 2050.  Just another jobs killing, tax increasing progressive Democrat endemic to either Silver Spring or Takoma Park.[/quote]

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