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Originally Posted by accord1999
You mean transit? Because roads on a per passenger trip basis are incredibly cheap.
And the biggest complainers about property tax I see on social media seem to be inner-city residents who talk about how they subsidize suburbs and how the new communities are raising their taxes while ignoring how much transit is available, or their extremely high per-capita policing and fire department incidents or how the levy to pay for the East Village matches or exceeds all of the 14 new communities put together. |
You know that for people to take advantage of the low trip cost of personal motor vehicle trips they have to, you know, own and operate a car.
Let's add that cost in, because it's included in the transit costs.
Let's also establish that the requirement to own and operate a vehicle to participate in the workforce in a city drives up the living wage as a result, and that cost is passed along to everyone consuming anything from service industries.