All these studies and justifications (aka "lies and exaggerations.")
Guess what we haven't seen?
Where's the study that talks about the financial damage to the commuters?
Where's the study that discusses the damage to the local small businesses that live on disposable income?
We're setting ourselves up to blow a yearly $100,000,000 dollar hole in our local economy... $90+million in lost expenditures and $8+ million in lost sales tax revenue.
What happens when that hits? What happens when people stop buying pizza and lattes and ice cream and going to the movies? (Not that so many are going to the movies now, anyway, given the already absurd prices and subject matter.)
Why doesn't Tim "The Liar" Leave-it and Steve "Slimeball" Stuart babble on about that?
Could it be.... that they don't CARE?
Nah. Couldn't be that....
.... could it?
The biggest lie is that it is a "user pays" form of financing. ALL property in Clark county will depreciate at least 5-10 percent when tolling is implemented. Real estate is supply and demand, and 50 percent of new Clark County residents come from Oregon. They will STAY in Oregon when the tolls begin. This will affect all property owners, even if they never cross the bridge.
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