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Really? When I was in Europe we could never find restrooms (or water!) without shelling out a few Euros. And even when we bought water, it was usually not refil
by umvi 7y ago
Really? When I was in Europe we could never find restrooms (or water!) without shelling out a few Euros. And even when we bought water, it was usually not refillable, it was in a glass bottle. And the metros still had beggars coming though each car asking for money and sleeping on the ground so clearly homelessness can't be solved by raising taxes alone.
High taxes also have other cons and negative effects that are out of the scope of this particular argument.
- outime 7y agoSince you said "Europe" I can tell you that's not the case in e.g. Finland. Restrooms in Helsinki are free to use for everybody and water is free in all or 99% of restaurants and you can refill it as many times as you want. There are no beggars in public transport from what I've seen here in almost 10 years. High taxes are being put into good use [1] when it comes to homelessness. I know that in many countries (including the one I'm from) this is the situation, but not in whole Europe. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-solution-to-homelessness https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...
- Jommi 7y agoThere are sometimes beggars/junkies in the metro, but it's very rare and it's usually about asking money for cigarettes.
- csomar 7y agoPeople confuse some Scandinavian and top EU cities with Europe. They forget that Paris, Greece and South Italy are also in Europe.