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Originally Posted by corporatejay
So again. I didn't have to pay for parking in front of my house before. And now I do. I'm paying for no increase in the quality.of service. Why should I be okay with that? The reason those zones exist is because the rest of the city would abuse the parking in the area due to services being used by the rest of the city.
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Why should I be okay with subsidizing your permit? It's a system that benefits only you and your neighbours and inconveniences everyone else. I gain nothing from it, so why should my taxes go to subsidize it?
Also, how does someone "abuse" street parking? They put their vehicle in an open spot on the street that happens to be in front of someone's house, so the person who lives in that house has to park somewhere else. It's a minor inconvenience. It's not abuse.
When people keep demanding lower taxes, the end result is that you either lose services that those taxes paid for or you get user fees to keep those services.