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Will [$6 gas] translate into a willingness by Virginia Republicans to pay for road and improvements? No, because the GOP has decided that they don’t need and can’t get enough votes in northern Virginia to compete with the surging Democrats in the state’s high-growth areas.
— Marc Fisher, opining on the partisan quagmire in Richmond. As a Northern Virginian (and I’m biased enough to capitalize the N), local politics reminds me of economic theory arguments. Does the richest part of a society deserve special advantages (transit) in the hope or threat that the benefits of its continued prosperity (tax revenue) filter or cease filtering back to the rest? Or when, say, one part of the society (rural) can’t fund its own schools and another (urban) can’t fund its own transit, should they help each other out by distributing from public coffers? Or should everyone suffer in a fairer allotment of illiteracy and immobility?
