Sad reality for so many people in America. This is the “normal” that people want to go back to?

  • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Abolish fares, what the fuck are fares for anyways? This should all be sorted out by taxes if we're going to live under a system where we all make money and pay taxes.

    Fares are nonsense, just an extra tax on the poor for doing the right thing and riding public transit.

    I make more than average, fucking tax me already to pay for people to get to work who have to make decisions about feeding their family, Jesus fucking christ. Tax me extra and build more train lines motherfuckers and maybe I can get rid of my car.

    • BillyMays [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Liberals love regressive taxes because they also hate poor people.

      • Magjee [any]
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        4 years ago

        I don't mind a property tax hike here in Toronto to have publicly funded transit

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The MTA is the worst of both worlds: it's half funded by taxes and half funded by fares, ensuring that the system is perpetually bankrupt and also at the mercy of legislators that don't live anywhere near NYC and hate the city in ways only upstate New Yorkers could.

      On a completely unrelated note, the MTA is just about bankrupt, the subways barely run half the time, and there's never time to do any maintenance :dumpster-fire:

        • Magjee [any]
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          4 years ago

          More like time to fund them publicly in full

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I was so mad when they started paying more for policing than they were recouping in fairs. It was literally just an exercise in punative paternalism

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      4 years ago

      force motorists to pay fairs so they can upkeep all of their own godforsaken highways while building an dope ass train network

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The downside to that is that it fucks over poor people who have to drive because low rent areas are often chronically under-served by public transport.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Motorists already pay fairs. They pay gas tax and toll booths

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        This is supposed to be the purpose of state highway tools and gas taxes. Sorry for the redundant response.