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Originally Posted by Muta
Impose a carbon tax for people driving a certain distance into the city. Or, tax citizens of other surrounding areas who come in and enjoy our city's resources (ie. infrastructure) for free coming into the city for work on a daily basis.
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The jokes really on single twenty something inner-city renters. When the shift happens from suburbs to inner-city, they'll be priced out of the inner-city and only be able to afford living in the burbs, but also have to pay all the "smug" factor taxes people like themselves tried to strap suburbanites with. The whole "only pay taxes for what you use" concept only seems to appeal to these people when referring to urban design. If the theory is applied to our progressive tax system federally, they'd be pretty pissed when all of a sudden there's no cultural funding, less health care funding (I don't have risk factors for chronic health conditions so why do I have to pay?), and so forth.