Tax increase on the February ballot - Bi-State "losing money but making it up in volume"
Eric S. Harris
attention it deserves. If it passes, it will increase the sales tax
rate in the County by half a percent (tripling the mass-transit part of
the sales tax) and increase the rate in the City of St. Louis by a
quarter percent.
How can a County tax rate change raise a tax rate in the City? Because
the City already has passed a tax rate for Bi-State, but it will not
take effect until the County passes its sales tax increase.
Half the County tax increase is earmarked for operating expenses, half
for MetroLink expansion. Expansion?
Sure, Bi-State loses money on every ticket, but if they expand maybe
they can make it up in volume? Hasn't worked so far.
Given Bi-State's problems with their latest MetroLink expansion, maybe
we should wait a bit, until they get their house in order. In other
words, forever. -Eric
Eric S. Harris
Although the County website doesn't show it yet, the tax increase
election has been postponed to a date TBA, according to radio station
KWMU. It could be because the St. Louis County Republican and
Libertarian Party Central Committees were considering motions in support
of Citizens Against Proposition M the night before (and at least one of
those motions passed).
But I think it was the result of the post quoted above. All who read it
were so impressed, they were speechless -- not a single comment in response.
Behold the power of the Internet! -Eric
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1198300
jt august
"Eric S. Harris" <eric_ha...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> But I think it was the result of the post quoted above. All who read it
> were so impressed, they were speechless -- not a single comment in response.
>
> Behold the power of the Internet! -Eric
Or perhaps we know to ignore troll like you.
I favor ML expansion, and I think it's expansion should have been
incorporated into the Hwy. 40 project to run an arm out towards
Chesterfield.
jt
Kevin Childers
news:starsabre-491B8...@inetnews.worldnet.att.net...
Sir,
I find your use of foresight unfitting in it's application to any
current or potential future project within the metro area. Fore sight is
not, has not, and will not ever be used by any agency of any form within or
associated with any metro area govenrment or public agency. never has and
never will be.
I point your attention to the historic precidents set by teh Inner Belt
(170), Page Avenue Extention (364) and other previous mass transit probects.
LOL
KMC
jt august
"Kevin Childers" <kchi...@mail.win.org> wrote:
> I find your use of foresight unfitting in it's application to any
> current or potential future project within the metro area. Fore sight is
> not, has not, and will not ever be used by any agency of any form within or
> associated with any metro area govenrment or public agency. never has and
> never will be.
>
> I point your attention to the historic precidents set by teh Inner Belt
> (170), Page Avenue Extention (364) and other previous mass transit probects.
(struggling to type while laughing hysterically)
Sadly, sir, you are so right.
jt
Eric S. Harris
Sir! I am deeply offended!
I am not a troll. I am a wiseass. (References available upon request.)
-Eric
jt august
"Eric S. Harris" <eric_ha...@wahoo.com> wrote:
> Sir! I am deeply offended!
>
> I am not a troll. I am a wiseass.
Obviously, you are a wise ass, most trolls are. But if you were not a
troll, you would have:
a) responded much quicker. My post that you replied to is so old that
worldnet.att.net's news server already lost it.
2) responded with a post about the subject, not a worthless post about
which worthless nickname applies to a worthless troll like you.
finally) you wouldn't think you are more important to us than the
newsgroup central theme (the StL metropolitan area). If you wre that
important, you would have your own newsgroup or web based forum, dealing
with you.
Now get your knuckles off the ground and get lost.
jt
Eric S. Harris
> In article <13sk8q7...@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Eric S. Harris" <eric_ha...@wahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Sir! I am deeply offended!
>>
>>I am not a troll. I am a wiseass.
>
>
> Obviously, you are a wise ass, most trolls are. But if you were not a
> troll, you would have:
>
> a) responded much quicker. My post that you replied to is so old that
> worldnet.att.net's news server already lost it.
stl.news doesn't get much traffic, so I don't visit often. An
occasional useless remark wouldn't do much damage there, even in
response to an ancient post, seemed to me. So far, I've only had one
complaint.
stl.general has much more in raw messages. Not so much after
subtracting out the fluff, the messages bearing more heat than light,
and the ones posted by people who prefer to use handles rather than
their names. But it's not a ghost town, as stl.news seems to be.
I shouldn't have contributed to the fluff problem in stl.general. My
apologies to anyone who was offended or annoyed. If you would like me
to apologize to you personally (either in the NG or in an e-mail) please
let me know. (Replace the "w" with a "y" in the reply-to address to
e-mail me directly.)
> 2) responded with a post about the subject, not a worthless post about
> which worthless nickname applies to a worthless troll like you.
"Nickname" isn't the word you're looking for. A quibble, I know, but
what the hey. We'd already been considering the overlap between
"trolls" and "wiseasses". (For those who might be interested -- and
consider wikipedia a worthwhile source of information -- here's a
wikipedia article on the term "troll":
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29> After giving it a
quick scan, it doesn't look like "troll" is the right term, either.
YMMV, etc.)
> finally) you wouldn't think you are more important to us than the
> newsgroup central theme (the StL metropolitan area). If you wre that
> important, you would have your own newsgroup or web based forum, dealing
> with you.
Good point.
However, if the stl.news NG were a bustling forum with numerous threads
chock-full of coherent, informed opinions, calmly expressed, and of
useful information, I'd feel pretty bad about cluttering it up with
silly stuff. But it isn't, unless there's a technical glitch that's
keeping me from seeing them; the traffic's seems pretty light.
Maybe there is a technical problem of some sort. I'm seeing no messages
at all from January or February.
stl.general is another matter. I do apologize for cluttering it up with
fluff. Some of the content in it is worth reading and worth replying to.
> Now get your knuckles off the ground and get lost.
Thank you for the suggestion. Suggestions, actually. I'll consider
them. Done.
The first doesn't apply to me. My arms are long for a primate of my
height and species, but not *that* long. I'm thinking it was intended
to be an insult.
The second doesn't appeal. Instead, I'll address the on-topic part of
your message, in a separate reply, and will endeavor to also be
on-topic. -Eric
jt august
"Eric S. Harris" <eric_ha...@wahoo.com> wrote:
> if the stl.news NG were a bustling forum with numerous threads
> chock-full of coherent, informed opinions, calmly expressed, and of
> useful information
OK, you got me there. stl.general is lacking coherency, calmness and
much that is useful. Instead we get freetuneup and her amero prophecy,
and terry lomax diatribing about how wonderful everything would be if we
would just agree that he is right about everything.
Oh, wait, you said stl.news. Doesn't matter, what you said applies to
stl.general also.
jt