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Mar 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NO MORE REGRESSIVE TAXES!

We should support transit—through our PROGRESSIVE taxes, as well as through fares.
AND we should support the roads and parking that transit AND bikes AND cars AND pedestrians AND (work) trucks ALL USE—
and NOT privilege any one form of transportation. Man in driver’s seat of car...
Some say we’ve “privileged” car use—and accomodations for cars—over transit and other transportation.
That’s debatable; we all use roads and all that arrives by means of them.
In any case, to now “OVERCORRECT” by favoring transit is wrong.
#DifferentFolksDifferentNeeds
#ProChoice
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Mar 15
@jenny_schuetz NO—it’s YIMBYs who don’t represent the people.
Especially when they push these draconian anti-car policies, like abolishing parking minimums for “affordable housing” and other development.
Working people want and need cars to “get it all done”; and we need PARKING for our cars! ImageImageImageImage
@jenny_schuetz To add so called “affordable housing”—or “middle housing”—without parking minimums is just a cruel tease.
“You want a place you can afford to live? Okay—but YOU CAN’T BRING YOUR CAR!”
And the same goes for business construction without ample parking for workers and customers.
@jenny_schuetz You know who’s really behind this push to get rid of parking minimums?
GREEDY DEVELOPERS!
They want to cheap out on parking and replace it with more units they can profit from.
And they’re glad to use “environmentalism”—and anything else that will work—as an excuse.
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Mar 9
@J_lem21 @criticalurban @BradWagon @BFryback @MotoristRights @NoBikeLanes @infopobn @NoMoreBikeLanes @PoundstoneWill @ZEROVISIONPHIlL @hgigante @savehopkins @MikeFromWoburn @DriveBikeWalk Transit and biking aren’t free either.
And don’t forget the cost difference between being a captive customer of the pricey “convenience store” near home, vs driving a little to load up the car at the big box discount stores.
And HEALTH?
Can you say “stranded in a food desert”?
@J_lem21 @criticalurban @BradWagon @BFryback @MotoristRights @NoBikeLanes @infopobn @NoMoreBikeLanes @PoundstoneWill @ZEROVISIONPHIlL @hgigante @savehopkins @MikeFromWoburn @DriveBikeWalk And FITNESS?
For many, “just get more exercise—THEN you’ll be fully able bodied (again), and able to walk to bus stops or ride a bike” is NOT a thing.
Neither is “get more exercise—then you’ll be ‘fit’ enough to outfight/outrun any predator you might meet on the street at night”.
@J_lem21 @criticalurban @BradWagon @BFryback @MotoristRights @NoBikeLanes @infopobn @NoMoreBikeLanes @PoundstoneWill @ZEROVISIONPHIlL @hgigante @savehopkins @MikeFromWoburn @DriveBikeWalk And further, “exercise” isn’t one-size-fits-all.
While biking—or walking to/from transit, navigating steps, lugging a backpack or cart all day—
may be the “right” exercise for one person, for others it may actually be CONTRAindicated; and some other form of exercise may be best.
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Feb 28
@Llib7 @Kachowsterxd @PoundstoneWill Want to fund public transit?
Add public $$ for expansion—a bus everywhere every 5 minutes 24/7.
Then, SOMEWHAT more people will ride—and pay fares.
But these transit nuts should stop trying to bully us all out of driving cars. Even the “ideal” transit won’t work for everyone.
@Llib7 @Kachowsterxd @PoundstoneWill Transit would win more public support if these transit nuts would STOP framing cars and car use as the enemy, and STOP claiming that we can’t support ALL transportation options being available, feasible, and affordable—so we can EACH get around in whatever way works best for US.
@Llib7 @Kachowsterxd @PoundstoneWill And also, knocking off the hostile, adversarial language would help.
That “dirtbag” debating style only serves to alienate people from any cause, however worthy.
(As do bullying, draconian “austerity” type policy proposals.)

“And if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao….”
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Jan 19
@criticalurban This right here ☝️☝️☝️—Shoupism—is the ideology behind this whole anti-car movement and its draconian policy proposals. The intent is to bully us all out of driving by banning cars and parking and/or making them prohibitively expensive. Shoupist policies are NOT progressive.
@criticalurban We need to educate the public—most of whom drive and/or want to drive—about this movement and the harm its pet policies do to working and middle class people. Some liberals and moderates unthinkingly parrot the Shoupist party line; and many give apparent consent through silence.
@criticalurban When asked, they say “yes, I drive—I HAVE to drive to do all I have to do—but I feel guilty about it”. 🙄
They shouldn’t. Energy efficient cars, and a transition to alternative energy, are essential; but in the ideal society, we’ll still want and need enclosed motor vehicles.
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Nov 28, 2022
@ejfagan What about THE POWELL MEMO?
hipcrimevocab.com/2016/10/05/why…
@ejfagan “The Powell Memorandum is, of course, the impetus for the creation of all of the subsequent right-wing think-tanks (AEI, Cato, ALEC), propaganda news outlets (FOX, talk radio), foundations (Bradley, Heritage etc.), astroturf groups (Tea Party) and the like.”
@ejfagan “But the extent to which all that was driven by what was happening on America’s college campuses in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s is often overlooked. What is also overlooked is why this led to America’s spectacularly expensive and wasteful education system.”
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Nov 27, 2022
This is a good idea only if it causes the company’s market value to tank—and THEN a collective of public-spirited parties buys it to manage as a public trust. (Without expecting profit; but for the pr/tax writeoff. And because it’s the right thing to do.)
BUT—
We may not want to actually kill the patient.
OR give Mush any further excuse for paywalls or multi-tier class systems in the name of revenue.
The goals of he and his backers may be to steer Twitter rightward, scare away or deboost grassroots voices, or to kill it entirely.
And…
any or all of those outcomes may be equally okay with them.
But NONE is okay with US!
UNLESS that public-spirited collective could somehow step up NOW and clone Twitter elsewhere? With all the reach, functionality, and simultaneous full communication among silos found here?
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