BART's Doomsday Budget Gambit: Close Stations or Get More Taxes

BART is threatening to shutter 10+ stations unless voters approve new taxes—while janitors earn $271,000, 57 employees double their salaries through overtime, and the Inspector General exposes systemic abuse. It's the California government playbook: manufacture a crisis, demand more money, reform nothing.

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