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Stop subsidizing businesses!

Government needs to get out of the way between consumers and businesses. Subsidies for the Capital Bike Share program total more than $16 million. Why should government be doing this? Explain where an authoritarian entity should be able to decide winners and losers rather than letting free and voluntary association drive winners and losers.

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    Brian WilsonBrian Wilson shared this idea  ·   ·  Admin →

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      • Anonymous commented  · 

        Love Capital Bikeshare and disagree with Brian. Agree with Anonymous. Keep going!

      • AnonymousAnonymous commented  · 

        Authoritarian? The last time I checked, Arlington County was governed by a freely elected Board of Supervisors. Here's a great model of government facilitating an increasingly popular service -- "202,822 trips and 245,877 miles in June both of which are new highs," reports TheWashCycle blog today. Appreciative users would still be waiting for a bikesharing program if left to such proponents of "free and voluntary association." Your comment is in reality just a call to inaction, & your characterization of the BikeShare program as "favoring absolute obedience to authority" (American Heritage Dictionary) is plainly over the top.

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