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Or even just cut the middle-man (the employer). Here in Denmark if you live more than a set distance from your place of work (IIRC it's 20km) you get tax deduct

by lagadu 11y ago

Or even just cut the middle-man (the employer). Here in Denmark if you live more than a set distance from your place of work (IIRC it's 20km) you get tax deductions based on the distance of your commute. This way it's the government directly that gets an incentive to make things better because they literally get less tax money and there's no added complexity by involving employers.

imgabe 11y ago
That probably works well in Denmark, but I think it would be confusing with the morass of federal/state/local governments in the US. A deduction on your Federal taxes wouldn't necessarily affect the tax money collected by the local or state government, which is usually the one responsible for building various roads. State and local governments may or may not even collect income taxes (some do, some don't).