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All user fees are regressive --- yet we don't seem to have a problem with the rich and the poor paying the same for a beer or a gallon of milk. The kind of thi
by quotemstr 9y ago
All user fees are regressive --- yet we don't seem to have a problem with the rich and the poor paying the same for a beer or a gallon of milk.
The kind of thinking that concludes that it's somehow wrong to charge two people with differing incomes the same amount of money for the same good is the kind of thinking that taken to its logical conclusion leads us to forcible leveling of material wealth and central economic planning. The experience of the 20th century demonstrates that this approach does not work.
- wwweston 9y ago> All user fees are regressive --- yet we don't seem to have a problem with the rich and the poor paying the same for a beer or a gallon of milk. It's almost like some purchases function differently than others, and reasonable people might choose situationally varying models/incentives when considering social policy decisions.
- jayd16 9y ago>gallon of milk. What? We subsidize food all the time.
- quotemstr 9y agoWe do, and I can imagine subsidizing road miles for the needy too. But the price remains the same and we apply the subsidy to the supply side!