Park this Stupidity, Again.

The province is looking to raise property taxes in order to make up for abandoning the parking stall tax which was proposed to raise revenues for Translink. For those readers who live in the City of Vancouver, this shouldn't be anything new, it's just like how the NPA raised taxes on homeowners to lower them on their corporate friends. This isn't government run like a business, it's government run by business.

There was nothing wrong with the previous parking tax proposal, and in the wake of the recent Carbon Tax initiative and the Liberals' glacier-like move towards making motorists pay the true cost of driving, it's even more relevant now. Want to encourage the use of public transit? Implement a parking tax stringent enough to get rid of the ludicrous amount of 'free' parking available in the Lower Mainland, filter those people on to the transit system, give them a few weeks to bitch about the service and threaten to vote NDP, and in no time Kevin Falcon and his band of idiots in the Ministry of Transportation will cut their deluded bullsh*t about transportation 'choice' and get serious adequately funding public transit again.

Sure, the parking tax may take a little longer than to simply smack working families with another tax increase, but it goes a lot further to reducing congestion and greenhouse gases, and besides, it's more fair. Driving is the new Smoking, and motorists should be paying the true cost of their filthy activity by subsidizing public transit, not having transit users subsidizing Kevin Falcon's freeway fetish through our property taxes.