>I think continuing to let people with disabilities park for free . . .
I'm not trying to attack people with disabled parking permits (my
mother had one after her knee replacement surgery, and needed it), but just
WHY do they need to park for free? (Or, to be more accurate, why should
their parking be subsidized by the rest of us taxpayers?)
I expect someone will say that they should be subsidized because
of the economic hardship they face because of their disability.
But in this downtown area, we have all kinds of welfare clients
going to see their case workers, we have people without jobs going to the
unemployment office, etc. Remember that we are talking about people with
disabled stickers using the meters to park all day long while they are at
their jobs. Shouldn't unemployed people, without any job at all, get free
parking too?
Or maybe everybody should pay for their parking, equally. Provide
economic assistance to disabled parkers some other way (deduction on state
income tax, maybe), if we feel that is needed.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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