Inequality in blue states flows from housing policy. Boomers propping up housing costs regardless of the societal impact. Sneering at meritistrocats won't put

Inequality in blue states flows from housing policy. Boomers propping up housing costs regardless of the societal impact. Sneering at meritistrocats won't put fish back in the sea for the people of New Bedford to catch, but allowing developers to build a ton of housing would create a lot of jobs for working people, help lower the largest expense of poor and working class people, and make it affordable for college students to stay. As for public transit, the city and state certain can spare many dimes. What they can't spare is the ten billion dollars it would take to actually deal with the MBTA's debt and deferred maintenance. It absolutely has to be addressed, for the sake of the entire regional economy, but investments on that scale, when they are not immediately relevant to the lives of 4/5ths of voters, are... challenging. If killing off an expensive but lightly used late night service that accounted for 0.4% of trips makes it marginally easier to deal with the root issues, then it should be cut. The T had four years (not six months) to make late night service viable, they failed.