On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 02:55:40 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:56:18 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:



All urban public transport systems in every country are subsidised.

Out of taxation in one form or another.

They
are after all a public service. Or do you expect to pay the full cost of
any medical treatment?

It would be far more cost effective than letting the government
collect tax, add bureaucracy and deliver a third rate service.

It's the same thing, whether public or private, a
form of insurance that levels out the costs to the individual.

The "levelling out" is taking from the haves to subsidise the have
nots in an extremely inefficient way.


Do you have a better solution? Do we turn the clock back a 100 years
or more to letting the 'have nots' fend for themselves?