The front page article in the 1-25-2014 Star Tribune is about DFLers seeking to raise the metro sales tax for transit to fund light-rail, Southwest Corridor project. Light rail never makes a profit. The money is better spent on single cars and caring for roads and bridges. Our sales taxes are high enough.
This whole expensive, unproductive infatuation with light-rail is an emanation of Progressives seeking to convert American urban areas into a Euorpean-style cityscapes with none in cars or residing in single homes in the suburbs. They want us jammed into 700 square foot high rise apartments in the inner city without greenery, luxury, affluence, big garages, privacy and individual liberty.
We need to disband the Met Council and vote the Progressives out of office. We do not require that Minnesota imitate New York or California or some French architectural scheme for public space. If we continue down this Progressive path, we will be as imprisoned and poor as the Europeans are.
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