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.
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:
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.
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.
Liberals love regressive taxes because they also hate poor people.
I don't mind a property tax hike here in Toronto to have publicly funded transit
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:
Some ghoul is probably saying that it's time to privatize the subways
More like time to fund them publicly in full
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
force motorists to pay fairs so they can upkeep all of their own godforsaken highways while building an dope ass train network
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.
Motorists already pay fairs. They pay gas tax and toll booths
This is supposed to be the purpose of state highway tools and gas taxes.Sorry for the redundant response.“Just donate,” says the ghoul libertarian/conservative