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he touched on that > the most common complaint being: "Oh, so only rich people can drive?" > This critique ignores the fact that working Americans often suffe
by prodikl 10y ago
he touched on that
> the most common complaint being: "Oh, so only rich people can drive?"
> This critique ignores the fact that working Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility. Working-class parents who are late to pick up their kids from day care, for example, often pay severe financial penalties. Having the option to reach their destination quickly could actually save them money. In fact, experience with dynamic tolling in the United States has shown that people of all income levels use these lanes. This objection also ignores just how inequitable and dysfunctional our current system is. Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads.
- soheil 10y ago> Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads. So let's add yet another burden? > Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility. Wow, somehow my crazy brain interprets this as if you're poor you're probably not as American as the rest of us. > Working-class parents who are late to pick up their kids from day care, for example, often pay severe financial penalties. So let's charge them up front so that they can't even afford to drop off their kids at day care?
- grotsnot 10y ago> working Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility. You missed an important qualifier, there.