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DESCRIPTION:CalTrain competes with BART, MUNI, and SamTrans for transportation turf, 
 and all these transportation systems compete for municipal and county 
 dollars. It can be likened to a Chinese Checkers game where multiple 
 players seek to dominate the game board, with the added rule of being able, 
 as in chess, to knock rival players off the board.\n\nThe CalTrain board 
 and its supporters are pushing multi-county sales tax hikes to strengthen 
 CalTrain's position in this territorial battle.\n\nBut what if the matter 
 of revenue and service efficiency were framed in a value-added set of 
 questions? Just as you ask yourself what more would I pay to get a service, 
 what if land users were asked, "what would you pay to add CalTrain or MUNI 
 or SamTrans or BART to your location?" The twist would be this: that all of 
 that extra location rent renters were willing to pay would pay for the 
 service, rather than, as at present, going to the landlord. At present the 
 renter pays the landlord the higher location rent, while the public service 
 provider resorts to sales taxes and business taxes to fund the service. 
 These taxes are in good measure a pass through to the landowner!\n\nYou're 
 invited to join a one hour, free introduction to Land Value Taxation as a 
 means of funding services when you pay your rent, and shutting off that 
 landlord's publicly sourced spigot.\n\nDial in (Dylan, get it?) a fix for 
 Blood on the tracks\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/21/18835223.php
SUMMARY:CalTrain: Economic "Blood on the Tracks"
LOCATION:Join Zoom 
 Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/98880893426?pwd=T3l0Ylc4S0lTQ0tiSmVzZ1d2TVhxQT09\n\nMeeting 
 ID: 988 8089 3426\nPasscode: Jz83iz\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/21/18835223.php
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