[ty6853]

That seems doubtful but possible since fares of public transit tend to run at a loss. Most public transit just offloaded the cost on poor who must drive to less accessible and less wealthy unserviced areas as collected tax expenditures from their checks.

[stouset]

Your mind is going to be blown when you find out how much it costs to own and operate a car, not to mention how much it costs in terms of time to commute back and forth.

[ty6853]

Sure, you have to pay for public road parasitism by pedestrian, public transit on roads funded partially by fuel taxes, and heavy road destroying vehicles. Not that I blame them, they're taking advantage of incentives offered. Who wouldn't want to bike on a road funded by car owners and then buy goods transported by 18 wheelers that end up destroying the road disproportionately to the point it is small passenger cars that get the biggest squeeze.

It's not dumb to not want to be the sucker, the urban yuppies on transit routes are great at squeezing the working class that way.

[stouset]

Roads are overwhelmingly funded by property taxes. Try again.

[ty6853]

Property taxes are regressive tax, analogous but not equal to the way sales tax is, try again.

[stouset]

Whether or not they're regressive, they are the primary means of funding the roads. Drivers don't fund roads, everyone does.

[ty6853]

Which means again it's an offloading from poor working class who tend to live in shittier transit access areas where a car (and its road taxes) is more necessary, regressively upwards. Public transit as implemented in US is a regressive middle class welfare program.