D.C.'s Commuter Tax

February 07, 2005 08:53 AM

Matthew Cella, writing in the Washington Times, takes on D.C.'s 2004 escalation in parking tickets:

The District last year issued $99 million worth of parking tickets, twice the amount in 1999 when Mayor Anthony A. Williams took office.
D.C. officials said the increase is a response to public outcry, not an aggressive, money-making initiative.

Really? Because usually, D.C. officials say "Yeah, this is totally an aggressive, money-making initiative." Love it. D.C., population 563,384, is making $175.72 per resident in parking tickets each year. But we think this cash should go directly to us, to fund an annual We Hate Maryland and Virginia Drinking Day.—C.S.

District doubles parking tickets [Wash Times]

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Trump's Sugar Daddy Has Lost That Horny Feeling

Robert and Rebekah Mercer aren't happy with their 'investment.'

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Is there ANY good news for the bumblefucking Trump re-election campaign these days? Their polling numbers are in the shitter, therefore Trump is firing the pollsters. Trump's Hitler rally kickoff event in Florida last night was ... whatever it was. Oh, and did we mention that they ain't got no money? Like, of course, not counting whatever Russian money they're not telling us about.

Don Jr. recently called a prominent donor and warned that Trump's money haul is falling behind where Barack Obama was early in his reelection, while Jared Kushner has privately complained to RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel that Trump's war chest is not as big as it should be at this point in the cycle.

Whiiiiiiiiiine. Guess they're gonna have to see if they can launder some rubles somewhere, ALLEGEDLY.

Gabe Sherman has some more bad news about Trump's shithole campaign, and it is that Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the father-daughter billionaire duo who bankrolled much of Trump's "victory" in 2016 -- including funding Breitbart, and also the part of the "victory" that comprised Cambridge Analytica, the data company they owned that may have done some real hinky stuff, possibly with Russia, in order to get Trump "elected" -- have zipped up their checkbooks and decided Trump can go eat dicks for all they care.

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