Editorial: Talk in the county of a tax in the city is premature...and weird

Editorial: Talk in the county of a tax in the city is premature...and weird

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A far greater percentage of city residents ride Metro trains and buses than county residents, but a lot of those city residents are on their way to jobs in St. Louis County.

Besides, to their credit, county voters decided this issue in April 2010, when 63 percent of them voted for an additional half-cent sales tax for Metro. They accepted the argument that while not everyone rides public transit, everyone benefits.

The real problem with transit funding in Missouri is that the state contributes almost nothing; the Legislature is dominated by rural lawmakers who regard it as an urban problem. The state is happy to take the roughly 40 percent of state revenue generated in metro St. Louis, but don't be asking for any ot it back to help people get to work.

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