The Politics of Parking 0
With his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, the Boston Globe’s Luke O’Neill tries to figure out the politics of parking-place savers (those folks who, after digging out a parking place on a public street, then stake a claim to it with a piece of furniture. Along the way, he manages to cite both Locke and Hobbes.
Here’s a bit from his introduction.
The counter-argument is no less easily applied to a political point of view: The roads, they say, belong to all. One cannot own what belongs to the people, and the act of shoveling out a space contributes to the greater good, providing more parking for others to enjoy. It is, in effect, a tax one pays for the use of the public space, which is just.
And yet, the more and more people I ask, the analogy breaks down, with many self-identifying progressives saying they are in favor of space-saving.
It doesn’t make sense.
It’s an interesting and wry take on a contentious issue.
