I don't know how the OP describes his politics but I assume he calls himself a "progressive". Words hardly mean anything in the US. He isn't comfortable if a farebeater gets shot to death but he really doesn't like the idea of free transit.
People really underestimate just how much it would cost to make transit free. 2/3rds of the MTA's $6.8 bil fare and toll revenue is fares, which comes out to $4.5 bil or around $12.5 mil a day.
free transit in our largest/onlyest megacity would cost like 8% of the last aid package we sent to a bunch of fuckin nazis? A steal of a deal, mr liberal
. 2/3rds of the MTA's $6.8 bil fare and toll revenue
Pretty slippery way to phrase it without mentioning that Fare and Toll revenue make up only 35% of total revenue for the MTA https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics like obviously they collect more in fares than tolls
I don't know how the OP describes his politics but I assume he calls himself a "progressive". Words hardly mean anything in the US. He isn't comfortable if a farebeater gets shot to death but he really doesn't like the idea of free transit.
free transit in our largest/onlyest megacity would cost like 8% of the last aid package we sent to a bunch of fuckin nazis? A steal of a deal, mr liberal
Fuck, just institute a 0.1% tax on Wall Street and you'd have to expand the MTA to spend all the money you'd have.
that too. plus the government literally prints money.
libs that still take "how you gonna pay for it" seriously are the most pitiful ones
Pretty slippery way to phrase it without mentioning that Fare and Toll revenue make up only 35% of total revenue for the MTA https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics like obviously they collect more in fares than tolls