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"for free"? What about at least property taxes?

• CydeWeys 8y ago
  Huh? Property taxes are paid regardless of whether you store a vehicle on the street or not. They really have nothing to do with it at all.
  • dsabanin 8y ago
    You have an option to store it a vehicle, it's your choice not to use it. I was just calling out the "free" part of the argument, property owners are definitely not getting anything for free.
    • CydeWeys 8y ago
      On-street parking isn't limited to property owners. Anyone can use it. And no, not everyone can make the choice to use it. There simply isn't enough space, and if everyone drove then traffic would be horrendous. In Manhattan only 1 in 5 people even own cars, for example, and yet on-street parking is always completely full everywhere. So it doesn't make sense to offer it for free given that most people cannot use it. People who don't use it should not be paying for it and people who do use it should be paying their fair share.
      • dsabanin 8y ago
        Define "anyone can use it"? Most likely it's going to be owners or their tenants, to whom owners right of parking generally extends. Regarding 1 in 5 people own a car, that I think pretty much works out to full parking everywhere, since the area of the street available for parking is definitely not 1 per capita, but probably way less. I can also apply your logic to school system. Why am I paying school taxes if I don't have children?