Please Vote for Prop 1
Why? 1) We should not be cutting back on public transportation. It's just ridiculous when so many people count on it especially to get to work. 2) The Times says you should vote no. That pretty much should be your tip-off to vote Yes. From The Slog : Their reasoning? Metro should cut more costs before asking for money, and Prop 1, which includes raising car-tab fees and hiking the sales tax by 0.1 percent, is a regressive tax on the poor. 3) Again, from the Slog: We admit it isn't perfect. But as our endorsement points out, we're in this mess thanks to a conservative anti-tax crusade in the 1990s that cut a progressive form of taxation based on the value of vehicles. Since then, Metro has already made millions of dollars in cuts and efficiencies. But we still need to help pay for it. And while we detest regressive taxes—and endorsed the income tax on the wealthy (ahem)— cutting transit for the working-class and poor would be more regressive than any...