Comment 117181

By CharlesBall (registered) | Posted March 23, 2016 at 11:18:07

I have to admit something. I have a cottage. (I know, I am going to hell.) My cottage is over three hours away and if I took a bus it would literally take me 7 hours to get there. So I have a car.

Another admission I have to make is that I need my car for work.

Another admission is, that I had young children (four boys) who played hockey. I had a car for that.

I could have passed on the cottage and the work and the hockey,(and the kids for that matter) but I chose to do that. My bad.

A car cost me about $10,000.00 a year all in.

I don't have a bus pass because I have a lot invested in my car. The cost of a bus pass bears no relation at all to the cost of parking for me because every dollar extra I spend on parking is just extra expense because I have a car.

From my perspective, because I have a car, forcing higher parking rates for social purposes is just a tax and serves no purpose for me and so is unnecessary.

The very vast majority of people own cars. Some use them a lot less than others but I bet the vast majority of people think like I do along the lines of the reasoning set out above. So they would think like me that raising parking rates unless market driven is unnecessary and is a tax.

I hate unnecessary taxes.

Comment edited by CharlesBall on 2016-03-23 11:20:48

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? George Orwell

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