Would you support a regional "Transit" Sales Tax?

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Kayem Dunn, executive director of the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research and chair of the Downtown Development Authority, suggested that downtown Grand Rapids’ greatest need is more people.

“People living, working, visiting. As there are more and more people, that will drive the addition of other things to serve those people. It’s about density.”

A corporate headquarters or an educational institution could easily add density, she said, but so could public transportation.

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n/m

[highwayguy]

Not exactly a sales tax, but, if you want to help approve a small property tax increase to support the Rapid, you have less than 2 1/2 hours left to get out and vote!!!

There is also a forum in the Coffee House for this:

http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38194

[Rizzo]

1/2 cent (.5%) for expanded rapid mass transit and 1/2 cent (.5%) for road improvement (aka, making sure your axle and hub caps stay intact)

[Talking Up GR]

I, too, would support an increase in the sales tax - and wouldn't mind some of it going towards a transit initiative. As long as we can replace the ridiculous city income tax with it (see my other poll)...

[houseofdon]

Until the city can show us that they're being good stewards of the taxes we already give to them, NO, I would not support an additional road tax.

Road repair and maintenance is an essential city service that should be a priority in the existing budget. I'm far from an "anti-tax" conservative (voted for Library, Rapid, GRCC millages), but clamoring for a new tax to fix our crappy roads rather than demanding fiscal responsibility from our city officials is totally backwards.

[Rizzo]

Are current road conditions mostly because of misappropriated money? Not assuming it's an issue you should throw money at.

[Raildudes dad]

Until the city can show us that they're being good stewards of the taxes we already give to them, NO, I would not support an additional road tax.

Road repair and maintenance is an essential city service that should be a priority in the existing budget. I'm far from an "anti-tax" conservative (voted for Library, Rapid, GRCC millages), but clamoring for a new tax to fix our crappy roads rather than demanding fiscal responsibility from our city officials is totally backwards.

[GR_Urbanist]

I could support a tax f that money was used to fix the roads with QUALITY materials, even if it's brick, so that they remain usable for more than a year or if it is used in the actual construction of a light rail line, not for the commissioning of preliminary studies to see the feasibility of the potential of a light rail line that runs six blocks, to be built in 10 years.

Not a dime for the employment of paper pushers and the generation of worthless booklets that will end up in the garbage.