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News: Speed Cameras To Aid New York's Budget Deficit
 TheNewspaper.com reports that New York Governor David Patterson advocates the use of speed cameras to help reduce the state's $7.4 billion budget shortfall. The proposal, which includes a plan to roll out fifty camera vans, has a target of "$96 million in net profit for the general fund by 2012". The announcement follows California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's similar initiative earlier this month.
Patterson's proposal describes the use of speed cameras on freeways as a "revenue action" and not a tax increase. Careful wording aside, do you think that this is a more honest approach to justify the increased use of speed cameras on our roads?
If politicians pushed for better services on the back of clearly defined and stated camera revenue targets, might more be persuaded to love, not loathe the cameras? Most of us want better services and understand that to gain them we need to pay more tax. That tax has to come from somewhere, so why not from those who have broken the law?
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Posted on Sunday, January 24 @ 13:45:29 UTC by Rob Brady |
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