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ChineseDaily Transit Links Roundup
Contributed by Fred Camino on March 21st, 2008 at 9:25 am
Image courtesy of lazytom.
- Amtrak teams up with Coachella to offer free rides to Indio for 500 concert goers.
- Breaking News! McDonalds Hamburger gets hit by Red Line train!
- Support for transit sales tax falls, tolls and public private partnerships looked at instead.
- Students ask 4 Gold Line to Montclair w/ a kewl website.
Discussion
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Well wouldn’t this be soooooo much easier if we could just raise the gas tax? But no, gas is untouchable.
I don’t see this sales tax hike as possible unless that threshold is lowered to 55%.
Another half-cent in LA County is economic suicide. You would just be sending all the car sales tax to Thousand Oaks and the Inland Empire.
Point of information. General use Sales Tax hikes only require simple majority votes. The 2/3rds for specific would likely apply to this proposal and 55% while it stood for education bonds probably wouldn’t withstand a challenge if for transit.
What challenge? You mean like an effort to stop it from being changed or some weird legal challenge?
I hate the ridiculous concept in this state that every tax should require a 50% vote to repeal and a 66% vote to pass. It’s insane. It violates basic concepts of political science. If it were up to me, there’d be no 2/3rds votes in this state at all for anything except maybe overriding the governor’s veto.
Everyone in CA demands improvements and then refuses to pay for it. I pray Feuer’s package of bills passes and we can start getting some funds for these necessary infrastructure projects.
Simon, without getting into the value of the projects proposed you need to be very careful that the increased taxes actually raise the money expected. IMO (and it is an educated opinion) is that 1/2 cent sales tax in LA County alone would backfire. VenCo 7.25%, LACo 8.25% and the passage would add another 1/2 cent differential? Not a good idea. Strangely, if LA could somehow convince the surrounding counties to raise as well LA would loose even more as the IE and VenCo would undoubtably use the money to compete for State and Federal matching funds that would have otherwise gone to LA.