@bobmsp Better policies would be:

-land value tax
-restoration of local government aid
-vehicle weight tax
-aggressive upzoning to grow tax base

But alas except for upzoning those aren’t within the city’s power to do. And upzoning would take decades to pay off.

@bobmsp yeah I’ve been pretty quiet about it because I’m very much on the fence too. It’ll hurt our store, both in terms of pricing and cash flow, which I really don’t like. It’s also extremely regressive. And we just added another 1% tax for transit this month, so retail is already contributing more than its fair share.

But, it seems clear that this is the city’s only way to raise revenue. And we desperately need to fix our streets.

So I don’t know either how I’ll vote.