True - you get an employer subsidy instead.
No doubt you can site a source with the exact breakdown of how they calculated their estimate. How about sharing it with the rest of us?
High Gas Prices Fuel an Octane Rebellion 2023Heavy breathing aint gunna save your bacon... Never ever said anything remotely resembling anything like that. Doesnt happen with gas prices. How odd that nothing like that has in fact been seen when the demand...
Uh huh. And how many FEWER of them would our taxes need to support if there were no automobiles?
So you should support my goal of eliminating ALL subsidies for ALL forms of transit. Let's charge every user the TRUE costs DIRECTLY and let the best mode win.
You say it, but can you PROVE it?
The problem is the sources of funds are so mixed up and well-laundered it's difficult if not impossible to accurately compare the TRUE costs of the various modes.
It has other benefits, as well: each and every one of those train riders represents one less car on the freeways.
Fine by me. Rail is best at the regional level; about the longest I ever want to spend on a train is 10 hours or so. Trains are great for commuting to work, and in some cases over mnoderate distances they are faster overall than flying and WAY less aggravating than driving. Long distance routes can go th way of the Dodo bird as far as I'm concerned.
