It's not the tax that's stupid....

Once again, the Park the Tax Coalition is selfishly bitching about having to pay their share of the Lower Mainland's transportation budget. The coalition is calling on area business owners to challenge their property tax assessments and what spokesperson Laura Jones describes as "the stupidity associated with this parking tax".

This page does agree with members of the coalition that it should be easier for Lower Mainland residents to park their cars - at home. Doing that requires an adequately funded public transit system, and unfortunately, a system of that scale is can't be a user-pay, 100% cost recoverable model. There are a lot of people who do think it should be that way: they're the same people who regard driving their car as 'free', and they're probably members of the Park the Tax Coalition.

Ms. Jones, and members of your coalition, pay attention: Stupidity is not when vacant lots are mistakenly counted as parking spaces. That's a surveying error. Stupidity is when ignorant, reactionary business owners unite to steal a vital source of funding from Vancouver's public transit system, the same transit system that brings many of your customers (and your employees) to your door. Either shut up and go away, or watch the likes of the Bus Riders Union spark a boycott of your members.