Lessons of Los Angeles’s Transit Tax: Money Isn’t Everything

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By Aaron ShortJul 31, 2019, 12:31 pm225 pts
Money isn’t everything. A new report is taking the measure of a half-cent sales-tax hike that three years ago sought to transform transit funding in Southern California — and finding, that while such a tax can be sold to the public, it is much harder to muster political support for long-term infrastructure…

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