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Paris residents set to vote on plan to triple parking charges for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Good. Why are MY tax dollars being used to subsidize everyone else's parking?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I've started to ask myself this more and more. Why is on street free parking (or even metered, but in a crowded core area) a value choice we make in our cities?

I'm still chewing on the concept, but once I considered challenging that status quo, it opened a lot of new approaches to what is considered a right vs exploiting the common city resources for individual use.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is in Paris you numpty

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Maybe they thought it was Paris, Texas?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd go further. Why would anyone's tax dollars be used to subsidise anything?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So that healthcare and education, among other things, are more equitable. Taxes are for subsidising a public good.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Parking spaces are public good...