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Originally Posted by redforever
No I am not. I am implying that the residents of Calgary also use the roads and infrastructure in the country.
And as someone else said, we don't all necessarily use health services, schools, any social service or infrastructure in the same way, some are high users, some dont use them at all.
But we all pay taxes, and as such, don't crap the bed because someone else uses a service that we both have paid for.
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But there are user fees for many of those services, on top of the tax costs to the public. How much is it for a kid in High School per year? How about for a trip to the clinic for some services? If I go to a City pool or golf course, I need to pay a user fee. That fee doesn't get charged to my neighbour, or the guy in Okotoks, does it?
Why should high demand parking be any different?
No one is claiming a person from Okotoks (for example) should pay more than the normal transit fee, even though CT operating costs are subsidized by Calgarian's taxes. We are just saying that the convenience of driving to a CTrain station and parking for a day in a high demand spot over taking a (sometimes crappy) feeder bus from your neighbour to that same station should cost extra money.
That fee is equal for all people, city residents or not, who choose to have that extra convenience.