On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 01:42:56 -0500, Jim Joyce
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 14:35:55 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:55:57 -0500, Jim Joyce
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:43:25 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:10:43 -0500, Jim Joyce
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:23:07 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:51:42 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 11:15:23 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:46:18 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 3:40:22 PM UTC-4, wrote:

Reagan may have been the last president I supported most of the time
but he screwed up a lot too. Where is Eisenhower when we need him?

In Heaven, pursuing dangerously liberal ideas, like the interstate highway
system, desegregation, and Earl Warren.

Cindy Hamilton
The difference was when Eisenhower proposed the Interstate Highway
system he put into place a user fee (gasoline tax) to pay for it.
Since then some democrats have seen fit to raid that tax base to build
railroads to nowhere and subsidize public transportation systems that
paid their own way, even making a modest profit in his time.
Those are also the places with crumbling roads and falling down
bridges. Imagine that.

It's always easier to raise money for sexy projects like new freeways
or bridges than to raise money for boring stuff like maintenance.

Cindy Hamilton

They had the money, they just put it into public transit instead of
roads. Public transit should charge fares that reflect the real cost,
not steal money from other programs.
Unfortunately those people are not willing to pay that. They always
want someone else to pay.

I rarely use public transport but I'm very happy to subsidize it so that
others can afford to use it. Every car off the streets makes it easier for
me to get around. IMO, they should lower the cost to zero to encourage even
more usage.

Sure, no doubt. You are a democrat. Nobody pays for anything, the
government deals with it.

That bit of idiocy aside, I thought I made it fairly clear that I'm willing
to have my tax money used to subsidize public transportation because, in
the bigger picture, I think it's good for society.

Maybe tie that knee down so it stops jerking.

Maybe the people in the cities where this mass transit is going should
be paying. I am still not sure why a free ride is good for society
tho.

Yes, I know. That much was obvious from the start. It hasn't stopped you,
or even slowed you down.


A non answer answer.
I ask again
How does a guy making $40k a year out in flyover land benefit from
subsidizing mass transit it a city with more millionaires per square
mile than anywhere else in the country?
It is no coincidence that the places that raid the gasoline tax fund
to subsidize mass transit have the worst roads.