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by WastingMyTime89 1404 days ago
Because we want to encourage people to take the train and discourage them using cars.
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Yeah, the tax could be targeted, e.g. tax on gasoline, or on cars, with ICE cars needing to pay more (even though they're better, public transport is still the better way to prevent the climate catastrophe), but hey, the idea of any tax is probably horrifying tp the libertarians on HN...