more claim on it than you do and I'm obligated to keep it up. What makes you think my people didn't pay their share of fighting the brits? I was only making the point that infrastructure has been built up over the years and to now act as if the current non-drivers are providing some huge subsidy is bs. Posted by morning about 2 years Ago Have you noticed that some paragraphs are indented? That usually means they're quoted from something. "References" aren't indented. Oh, so close. A house with on-street parking vs the same house without would have to have the same value (and pay the same taxes) in order for the this premise of "freeloaders" and liberal vs conservative to be true. Can any body provide meaningful data on the compatible taxable value of these homes? How about new "walkable" cubes of condos with and without available parking, free and pay. This "conversation is remarkably short on data. Erica looks like she has completely ignored what people do after they park. This will sound strange, but, I don't know anybody that lives inside Safeco Field (maybe I need to broaden my circle) but I do know that all of their parking has a 10% tax that is used to pay off those bonds. I have heard testimony in the state senate W&M committee from the Mariners about how many people come from outside of Seattle to dump their wealth here and leave. They would like to redirect that