Completely disagree.
Free parking on public space is statist/commie behavior.
In a capitalist society there's no room for free parking. You use a space for your private car, you should pay for that space.
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If it's parking on public spaces, those are operated by the government, which inherently means it's not priced or operated by the free market.
And what if you're only parking for a few minutes in a private lot? Sometimes the minimum time you can pay for is substantially higher than the time you'll be occupying the space.
The owner of a private lot set the price and its minimum/maximum.
Don't like? Don't buy it.
That's the free market. Anything wrong with it?
Regarding some public parking space being free, yeah, I agree with you that it shouldn't be free.