A better argument that it’s not really how much it costs, but some territorial sense that anything paved with macadam is there’s is how violent conversations ab

A better argument that it’s not really how much it costs, but some territorial sense that anything paved with macadam is there’s is how violent conversations about parking gets: * if someone “steals” a spot in a parking lot that you felt you wanted, * if someone parks on the public road in front of one’s house, * or worse, more recently when people started taking over streets for other use than car storage. If this was seen as a commercial transaction ("as a driver, I paid the £100, therefore it is mine, and people who haven’t paid shouldn't be allowed in") then for-pay parking spots wouldn’t be seen as such an unfair tax, even when they aren't that expensive. The outrage comes from seeing those as the birthright of any car driver. Taxing that right is inherently wrong, even for a few dollars an hour (which is several orders of magnitude cheaper than the value and externality of any urban parking lot).