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by freen 208 days 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.
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Broken_Hippo 208 days ago
Of course the rhetoric is such. One of those things helps poor folks more than the others.
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potato3732842 208 days 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.

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BobaFloutist 208 days ago
What if I drive an electric vehicle? Sure, my registration is possibly pricier, but I'm in no way paying a usage fee.
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potato3732842 208 days ago
You're being subsidized because the .gov decides they want more of you so they make what you do artificially cheap compared to the baseline.
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BobaFloutist 208 days ago
That's what we're suggesting be done for public transit
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freen 208 days ago
Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes.

I guess busses run on fairy dust too?

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potato3732842 208 days 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.

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