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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The County is not a for profit entity looking to make money off of the services it provides.  It's goal is to provide services that improve the county for residents, businesses, and visitors -- and one such service is to provide parking in certain areas of the county.  Many services provided by the county don't make money -- some don't even charge anything to use -- but that doesn't mean that the county should not provide them.  [/quote]

At first blush this sounds like a valid argument.

Except 1) Why should the county provide something that the private sector already provides an abundance of (though in Montgomery County that in part is because the county requires it) and 2) should the county be subsidizing an activity that runs counter to many of it stated policies?

I'd love it if the county provided me and everyone else with greatly discounted pizzas and lost money on the endeavor but I'm hard pressed to think of a compelling reason for such a subsidy.

For what it is worth neither DC nor Arlington subsidize parking and both are booming right now.
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