[wayoverontheright]

The ulterior motive? To kill suburbia, reverse the flow of populations away from the inner city, so that we can all live downtown and ride the gubmint trains.

[MrB]

Urban populations are dependent populations - just the way the left likes it.

[BwanaNdege]

Take a look at the “Red State-Blue State” map (actually, the Red Counties-Blue Counties map).

This is all about making the serfs (Red Counties) pay for the “elite intellectuals” (Blue Counties/Cities) favorite toy with wheels, Mass Transit!

[Abathar]

"The ulterior motive? To kill suburbia, reverse the flow of populations away from the inner city, so that we can all live downtown and ride the gubmint trains."

Exactly true. This is so simple to figure out his ulterior motives here, Urban folks use a tank of gas by driving far less than rural drivers do.

Sitting in city traffic the mileage of most cars suck, long waits to go 10 blocks, etc... I can drive in 5 minutes the same amount of miles that many city drivers do in an hour, yet they use up far more gas and he wants to hit US for higher taxes while they will not see nearly as much increase. Oh yeah, funny coincidence, look at the map and tell me which voters will be paying more in taxes by distance, and who will not -

[Rich21IE]

That’s only the half of it. Believe me, the other half is about as evil as you can imagine.

[coydog]

Or it might have the opposite effect. Businesses and corporations might move out to where their best workers are and have nice, campus-like HQ’s in the ‘burbs rather than expensive sky scrapers in the middle of town. Not to mention the boost this would be for telecommuting. They might well shoot themselves in the foot on this one.