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Sure, but they're only using the bridge to drive to McDonalds. It's McDonalds generating all that traffic -- they should pay the bridge operator too! /sarcasm.
by roc 12y ago
Sure, but they're only using the bridge to drive to McDonalds. It's McDonalds generating all that traffic -- they should pay the bridge operator too! /sarcasm.
- rodedwards 12y agoThey do. Property taxes.
- jjoonathan 12y agoSeeing as ISPs also receive money from the government and Netflix pays taxes, you could make the same pointless observation about Netflix and Verizon. But you shouldn't. This discussion is about a direct company-to-company attempted shakedown, not inefficient procurement.
- wpietri 12y agoI'm not sure you mean to argue for a publicly funded Internet, but that's basically what this implies.
- tankenmate 12y agoYou've already got that as the government already pays subsidies. I'm all for basic infrastructure to be collectively owned; be it co-ops, collectives, not for profits or even the government (local, national etc). This is the way it is for roads, rubbish, sewerage, etc. If you want a premium / luxury service then feel free to pay extra. Contract out support, maintenance, sales for the infrastructure by all means, but the ownership should be a collective of the users.
- rhizome 12y agoProperty taxes tied to the level of traffic destined for a particular commercial location? This is the first I've heard of something like this, can you tell me more?
- rodedwards 12y agoProperty taxes for a given location are determined by the size and nature of the business.
- nknighthb 12y agoProperty taxes are based on a poor approximation of what a property would be expected to sell for. The relationship between that and the size or nature of the business operating there is highly attenuated, and it's almost entirely decoupled from how much traffic a business generates on any particular road.
- roc 12y agoThey don't pay taxes to toll road operators.
- hyperliner 12y agoIt's like asking Walmart to pay for the cost of the welfare that its employees take. Wait!
- ars 12y agoWas that sarcasm? If not, and it was a serious idea then keep in mind Walmart is not the "parent" of their employees - it's not responsible for their upkeep. Hopefully that was just sarcasm and I'm replying for no reason.
- smsm42 12y agoIf we had usage-paid highways (which we couldn't have earlier due to missing technology but now such things start to pop up), I can imagine some remotely-located mega-store could advertise as "come to us and we'll pay your road toll - both directions!".