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freen | 3 months 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|3 months ago

Of course the rhetoric is such. One of those things helps poor folks more than the others.

potato3732842|3 months 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.

BobaFloutist|3 months ago

What if I drive an electric vehicle? Sure, my registration is possibly pricier, but I'm in no way paying a usage fee.

freen|3 months ago

Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes.

I guess busses run on fairy dust too?