So, the Streetcar is still kind of a hot button topic, somehow. It seems that mostly the conversation boils down to this:
Pro-streetcar people: “The streetcar will bring us money and revitalize a buncha neighborhoods.”
Anti-streetcar people: “IT’S ILLEGAL. TRAINS ARE DUMB. CHOO-CHOO!”
The Cincinnati Enquirer: “Both sides are absolutely right.”
This entry, however, is about the anti-streetcar folks–COAST, specifically. COAST, by the way, stands for “Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes.” Their mission is an “absolutely clear” one:
COAST exists to limit the rate of taxes and spending at the federal, state, and local level to within the rate of inflation and to stop the abuse of power by government officials.
COAST advances this cause by consistent and principled adherence to limited government and lower taxes in fighting legislation and ballot initiatives that increase taxes and spending beyond the rate of inflation, and by supporting candidates for public office who advance these principles.
I don’t really know what that means.
Pros:
- They’re not big streetcar fans.
- Lovers of big, convoluted sentences.
- Inexplicably frugal? COAST is for you.
Cons:
- Find it hard to be angry about taxes all the time? Yep.
- Do you actually like taxes and the services they allow cities to offer, once you think about the purpose of taxes?
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