Is Booting Cars Really LA’s Answer to Budget Deficits?
It’s not easy to live in LA. You’ve got to have a certain toughness. Especially if you are struggling to make ends meet… and who isn’t these days?
Certainly our fair city is having a hard time. And it seems that one of the answers the people who run this place have is raising the fine on just about everything having to do with driving. Forget about the impact on the populace. There’s a new attitude and it seems to be… let’s make new laws to take as much money as we can from the people of this city.
Now I’m not an advocate of scofflaws who drive like maniacs and endanger peoples lives by their bad driving. Those losers should be off the road… but I can’t help but wonder what kind of message politicians are sending to us folks when they raise the parking rates to outrageous sums, slap $50 parking fines on expired meters, boot and tow cars after three unpaid parking tickets … it used to be 5 (lots of money in getting a car out of hock) and now are suggesting that putting more cameras at intersections can raise millions for the city.
It’s not often I get to feel glad that I’m not a (reported) billionaire, but I’m glad I am not 49-year-old private equity investor and newly fledged Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner.
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