5 Ways Speeding and Red Lights Cameras Are Causing Political Outrage

[Selatius]

1. If the cameras are simply for taxation purposes, I oppose. It's a flat tax on everybody.

If the city wants to raise cash, it might do it the old-fashioned way and pass a targeted tax increase aimed at wealthy property owners. Hike up the property tax with an exemption for the first 300,000 of a person's home, or whichever appropriate rate.

But nobody wants to do that. Working class people going to work don't have their own lobbyists. Rich homeowners, on the other hand, usually have money to bribe city hall into their way of thinking, and they have the powerful arm of the Chamber of Commerce going to bat for them, and few city councilmen are willing to pick such a fight with a goliath.