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People come to your city to do business there. If a lot of people do business in your city, a lot of people will be coming in and out of town every day. Compla
by zaroth 8y ago
People come to your city to do business there. If a lot of people do business in your city, a lot of people will be coming in and out of town every day.
Complaining that the people who come to your city to do business (spend their money) are poluting a bit with their cars while they are there, and the cost of that pollution is unfairly borne by city dwellers I think is bizarre, because the benefits of those people coming into the city and spending all that money (which generates jobs and tax revenue, etc.) accrues to the city.
The city is already being paid a very hefty return on the cost of cleaning up the pollution of people traveling into the city every day. The city would not want to discourage people from making the trip!
Maybe more succinctly, the polluter is already paying the city more than enough to cover the cost of cleaning up the car pollution, by nature of the money they are spending while they are in the city.
- pas 8y agoit's not about rentability, it's about fairness. this is a subsidy in favor of those, who pollute by car, while usually those are the people who could pay for it easily. of course, it's possible that if a city is at the same time both relies heavily on car based tourism/shoppers and its demography is dominantly carless poor people, then in this case probably they would get more poorer by introducing a car usage fee.