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It's really wild to see how many people are planning to vote against transit funding in the Bay Area claiming it's because they think they need to teach the transit agencies a lesson. Many of them will go on about how wasteful the transit spending is, as if they actually know anything about that.

Dude, you've never read through a transit budget in your life and you certainly haven't compared them across agencies. Do you even know about the Bay's terrible funding structure, or the difference between operating & capital budgets? No, you're just a sucker repeating right wing propaganda.

This shouldn't be a sales tax that unduly burdens workers instead of giant corporations that dodge taxes and run their own transit systems, it should be funded by a payroll or similar tax, but the Bay always folds to big business. Screwing over workers who rely on transit to spite them won't help.

BART carries almost exactly the same amount of people in the transbay tube each day as the number who cross the Bay Bridge in cars, about 275k each, so if BART dies count on bridge traffic doubling. This same exercise can be applied all over the Bay, where traffic is already often a huge mess.

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