12-21-2016, 02:21 PM
(12-21-2016, 02:13 PM)Coke6pk Wrote: Tomato Tomato. [Without the accent, I guess it makes no sense ]
In a country like ours, those who don't use still pay... and I'm OK with that. The "road tax" / "tolls" / "driving is free" debate will not be solved here. Its no different that those without kids who have to pay school taxes. (As a parent I thank you. I'm sure I am paying for a service you use that I don't).
Coke
It absolutely is different. We as a society are perfectly willing to pay for things which provide net communal benefits.
Mass motoring has enormous social and environmental costs which offset those benefits.
Education has no such costs.
They're entirely different. I'm happy to pay for education. I'm happy to pay for transit. I'm not happy to pay to buy out entire neighbourhoods of homes, pave over enormous swaths of the Earth, just so we can continue to pretend that automobiles are the *only* way to get around.