If you don't understand this city, this county, and its people, stop telling me how wonderful it was that LA passed Measure M.
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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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Succinct and sad. I get it now, thank you.
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sounds similar to one passed here in Modesto.
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