Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
This is ridiculous. The food trucks have to pay for parking, and since that's all they use, that's all they have to pay for. The restaurants have no legal right to the road nor what happens on it. What you dismiss as a technicality is the most important aspect that undermines your whole argument.
The owners are paying for location, that's why they pay so much for the land. The vendors are using public land in the same location, so they get same benefits but their only cost is parking because the land cost is subsidized for them AKA other people's taxes allow them (and everyone else) to be there.
The store owners Do. Not. Own. The. Road.If the restauranteers don't like the situation they should respond by offering a better services to customers. If they can't then the government shouldn't get involved to protect them by regulating new businesses out of existence. Maybe most restaurants can't compete. So what? The government shouldn't protect dying industries.
And I don't technically own the oil under my neighbors property. But guess what happens when I build an oil rig on my property. From one of my favorite movies, "DRAAAAAINAGE!". I thought you had a minor in economics?All this talk of outcompeting a subsidized competitor is just silly.