“Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus” The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest
Posted by Sine_Fine_Belli
“Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus” The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest
Posted by Sine_Fine_Belli
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I like how there’s basically no sources in this blog posted so I’ll say the line..
What’s your model?
nevermind I think this is a Jacobin guy so I’ll just assume there aren’t any.
>Because if you don’t have that slow each person getting on the front of the bus and waiting, (and if) you don’t have the problem that bus operators have to be the ones to enforce the fare at the front of the bus, you dramatically reduce the amount of time buses spend boarding.”
This confuses me. My city has a bus system with paid entry. On lines that are very busy, they use red buses. On these buses, you don’t need to show your ticket to enter or exit. Instead, they use random inspections to enforce payment. It seems to work fairly well. Why not just do that if the problem is boarding time?
nah, i support redistribution, ergo the rich should be made to make a contribution, so yes means testing
At no point in its history was the subway system in Moscow free, including under the Soviets.
No mass transit system that is decent is free at the point of service anywhere in the world.
If you make it free at point of service more people will use it and all else equal you will have less money to pay for upkeep and increases traffic which will increase maintenance cost.