Richard Stallman on Nostr: [2/3] … companies which have won contracts to hand out these fines. Their business ...
[2/3] … companies which have won contracts to hand out these fines. Their business is cruelty. The owners deserve the term "vampires", but the employees may only be desperate. Chicago sold off the income from street parking fees to a company along with the authority to decide the policies and prices. Motorists have already been screwed, but the contract will run for many years so the city is screwed too. It should be illegal to involve anyone in fining the public in such a way as to …
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