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Every single way in which government raises money is a "patently unfair" burden on someone. Lotteries are an unfair tax on gamblers. Liquor taxes are unfair because they target people who drink! Income taxes unfairly target the wealthy! Payroll taxes and sales taxes are regressive.

With the traffic cameras, there's fortunately a whole host of easy ways you can get out of paying the fines: slow down! choose a different route!

But yes, if I were really in favor of safety I would be in favor of creating a bureaucratic mess in order to redistribute $50 to every person in DC. Hint: that money already gets redistributed to DC residents in the form of services.

I really do understand your argument, but the reality is that unbundling revenue from the cameras won't do anything to stop the screaming of those who hate the cameras. Heck, the Mayor is in favor of more cameras and I think most would agree he doesn't usually latch on with the urbanist non-driving fringe radicals like me who think traffic cameras are great at slowing people down.

by MLD on Apr 2, 2012 5:28 pm • link • report

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