RE “Transportation proposal comes with a price” (Metro, Jan. 22): The governor has proposed to raise yearly tax revenue by $1.9 billion for education, highway repair, and the repair and expansion of public transportation.
Transportation expenditures are to include a pay-down of MBTA debt (not priced), the repair of existing infrastructure and fleet (not priced), and about $3.8 billion of public transit expansion. We must repair Boston-centered infrastructure already in place and eliminate expansion. Boston and Cambridge are thriving economies, and the benefit of repair justifies its cost because it allows further growth through access to a wider labor pool.
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On the other hand, people DID come to Atlanta (then called Terminus) explicitly because of the railroads.
ok to inveest in this and improve and make safer however the funding should come from all teh waste in govt at state level-the excessive staff at state house, the probation dept, the housing authority all had scandals of waste and abuse of taxpayers dollars . also we let sham no profits like colleges and hospitals pay no taxes even though they make millions in profits and charge outrageous prices . in addtion we give tax breaks to theives like liberty mutual and large banks...there is plenty of money already in govt ...
Really? Look at Davis Square before and after the Red Line went in. People and businesses do make location decisions based on transportation availability.
And it is not worth the cost. Which is why, Deval Patrick's proposed tax increases are NOT to fix transportation, nor are they to fix educatiion. The REAL reason for the tax increases, NOT reported by the Boston Globe but as discovered by today's WSJ, is..the EXPLODING COST of the MA health care for all law known as RomneyCare...On top of that Patrick's attempt to make an income tax increase "progressive" by changing the personal exemption, will be ruled unconstitutional.
As I remember, when Patrick was elected, the first thing he did was remove the cost control measures in "Romneycare"...at that point Patrick was lauded as visionary...now that the costs are out of control it is Romney's fault (how very Obama of him, sure it isn't Bush's fault?)