The only impact to the City budget is $13 Million which if the city stopped wasting money on Bike Lanes and creating a new City Department that didn't exist before, they would be able to make up the shortfall easily.  Their problem is they keep asking the Legislature to make the hard choices for them by increasing the GET so that they aren't accountable for the funding issues with rail.  Well they have burned that bridge one too many times, so now that the Legislature is pushing back, they start crying about it.  It's ironic that ever since the rail and subsequently the rail tax started, the number of people that are homeless have increased exponentially.  I honestly believe that if rail were not being built, our homeless problem wouldn't be as bad as it is now and home and rent prices wouldn't be as high as they are.