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Free transit: IMPOSSIBLE!!! Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL The political class are not typically utilizers of public transit: hence even the best at
by freen 10mo ago
Free transit: IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL
The political class are not typically utilizers of public transit: hence even the best attempts are structurally challenged from the outset.
If that isn’t factored into your analysis, you are missing a huge reason why it sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds.
- Broken_Hippo 10mo agoOf course the rhetoric is such. One of those things helps poor folks more than the others.
- potato3732842 10mo ago>Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL Every time you fuel up a vehicle you are paying a "fare" to use the road. The fare is subsidized (just like with the bus), but it is very much there and not zero.
- freen 10mo agoEvery time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes. I guess busses run on fairy dust too?
- potato3732842 10mo ago>Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes. >I guess busses run on fairy dust too? Every vehicle on the roads is basically paying to be there via fuel tax (which in whole or large part is spent on the roads). Busses pass some of this cost on to their riders who's fare may be then subsidized in part or full. I don't see why you're being so hysterical.
- BobaFloutist 10mo agoWhat if I drive an electric vehicle? Sure, my registration is possibly pricier, but I'm in no way paying a usage fee.
- potato3732842 10mo agoYou're being subsidized because the .gov decides they want more of you so they make what you do artificially cheap compared to the baseline.
- BobaFloutist 10mo agoThat's what we're suggesting be done for public transit