From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 13:51:56 MST
--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
> Max M wrote:
> >
> > Again I will come with a eurochirp here.
> >
> > One of the things our excessive taxations are used for is an
> > extensive public transporation system.
> >
> > We have subsidided trains and busses galore, so that nobody
> > actually needs a car to get around.
>
> ### If people really need trains and buses, they don't need to be
> subsidized.
Quite right. Per-rider investments in mass transit equal buying a brand
new BMW for each rider every 3 years.
Unless you confiscate parking lots and tax to high heavens those you
leave open, as well as taxing fuel heavily, there is no incentive for
people to use mass transit.
The european mass transit system is a response to socialist
infringement on private property.
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Mike Lorrey
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