As an outsider I'm not educated on the downsides to M. Can you share a link?
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No one's written about it that I know of, but I can share some concerns here....
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For starters, Measure M was dubbed a public transportation initiative. But a lot of the money actually goes to roads and highways.
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Additionally, this measure taxes everyone, but not everyone benefits: communities of color are 1) getting pushed out by metro and/or
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2) lives in communities that rely on buses -- which are not a priority for the MTA and corporate construction companies.
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The MTA is a known civil rights violator. We can't expect it to write equitable policy proposals.
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The big constructions companies, like Aecom like Parsons, win by taxing communities of color who will never see the benefits.
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The tax is also permanent. This is going to be a forever kind of injustice....
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I hear that, but not everyone lives in a community that will benefit. Some will never see any benefit from the tax they pay.
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This is a county measure, tho. Consider POC communities like Palmdale that have to pay a tax but don't even have a station.
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You know it's not subway, right? M builds a 65-mile freeway there, causing yet another environmental nightmare for poc.
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Right. Opening another massive freeway is literal death. That's why I don't celebrate Measure M's passing.
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there's an NPR talk about it where the
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That would be wonderful!
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Wow. If those who claim to benefit POC lie and add pollution in our communities so yuppies can get to work faster, replace them.
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