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It's genuinely fascinating how San Francisco “progresssives” have somehow aligned themselves with the car industry in their opposition to funding mass transit (lemmy.zip)
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Her plan: "Don't punish poor people with taxes to fund transit. Punish poor people by dismantling transit waiting for the perfect funding scheme"

This is literally the exact same playbook billionaires used to kill a transit tax referendum in Nashville:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/04/23/koch-brothers-group-begins-ad-blitz-against-nashville-transit-referendum-week-vote/543421002/

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If anybody was confused as I was, here's what I found when I looked it up: Yes, a sales tax is a bad idea for transit funding, since it's among the most regressive of taxes. The issue here is that Chun seems to oppose any transit funding source, like the proposed congestion pricing, or bridge tolls.

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