How that different than a person paying school taxes but doesnāt have kids? And letās say that person went to school in a different state.
Schools are integrated into society to keep and train the next generation. It serves all of society to have a safe place to educate children and a productive work force.
This is a pet project for a group of people that frankly by and large already act very entitled and will do next to nothing to benefit the city of Charlotte and itās citizens. Those people pay zero? The people that ride it every day pay zero and the people who will never ride it pay 1% of everything they purchase? It shocks the conscience itās so absurd.
Iām all for rail, but making people like ho get zero benefit pay for it and requiring no thing of the beneficiaries is not the way.
Residents of northern Mecklenburg County have been paying extra sales taxes for decades with little transportation spending going their way.
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Charlotte needs a well thought out web of rail lines. They didnāt start day 1 so have to start some time and make the best of whatever it can be. Iād rather my Tax money be spent on this than panthers/hornets subsidies, museums/arts and Iām sure if I saw a list I would put the rail lines way ahead of a lot of other spending.
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I would add greenways to your list
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Hopefully it will make traffic better for people that live in Meck that drive on 77.
Thatās worth something.
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clt says we need our c on that bridge bigly
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Oh good grief. NAP just bought it a few years ago and proposed a lot of dramatic changes that the residents hated.
More extensive story about Birkdale:
clt says it is bigly better now
The previous owners made a mess with all the crap in the green medium areas. It really is an eyesore. Hope the new people do a much better job. Canāt do much worse.
From the QCNews piece above:
clt says beers are better than stupid trees. they own it and can do what they want
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