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Brickbats

Easy Money

Reason Staff | 2.4.2009 4:36 AM

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Florida's Tri-Rail commuter train services faces a budget deficit as the governments of the three counties it serves cut their funding. How to make up the deficit? Soak the people who don't use it more money. Tri-Rail officials have asked the state for a $2 tax on rental cars to fund the trains.

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