Your partner says they park there all the time and don’t get a ticket, but then you’re surprised when you do? Yeah, it’s because they don’t patrol every block constantly. You got busted. Eventually people do.

And you’re questioning whether the parking fines “pad the pockets of the higher ups??” That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

It’s not like every dollar of revenue aligns with a specific dollar of expenses. Cities don’t work that way, businesses don’t work that way, people don’t work that way.