County Now Deeper in Transit Ripoff

Although, transit continues to be as phony as a smile in Williams’ Arena in March, our County Commissioners today decided to make us pay a sales tax to fund it. And the proceeds from this theft cannot be used for busses, only for trains.

This action was made possible by the legislature in the veto-overidden Transportation bill from earlier this year's session. [To avoid giving His Excellency the Governor too much credit, it seems highly unlikely that this tax was the reason for the veto.]

In relative silence and without a public hearing, six commissioners [including all who represent the Capitol City] signed on to this new ripoff.

Note: Earlier posts mentioning transit can be found by clicking on the label “transit” on the right. The first one “Transit and Taxes” [12/7/07] is probably the most oriented to the theories supporting transit.

Sales tax is mentioned in Pawlenty and LeVander: Republican Governors and Sales Tax [3/7/08]