Perhaps. But the District also makes a lot of money off taxes from restaurants and bars. A parking space on 18th street generates $2.30/hour for 11.5 hours a day, six days a week. That’s $158.70 a week. Of course there is some overlap, it’s not exact metering, as well as some empty time. Let’s call it $200/week. Now you put four two tops in that space. Much of the day they are empty, of course, but after five you serve ten people. And on Thursday-Sunday you serve twenty people a day. That’s 100 people. Each person spends $25. That’s $2500 in revenue. And $250 in sales tax, from that same space.