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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

CoopersDad

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2. Like parks, schools, and libraries, transit should be heavily subsidized.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Aug 19, 2024, 09:51 AM

Aug 2024

We don't tax wealth the way we did under Reagan, Carter, Johnson, and earlier administrations.

All of these tax breaks for the top earners is killing transit.

To solution is, in large part, to tax wealth and lift others with that revenue.

Free transit for youth and seniors should become the standard.

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DC/MD/VA: Billion-dollar deficits, drastic cuts: Metro faces fiscal catastrophe [View all] marmar Aug 2024 OP

A billion dollars is a lot to run a metro. jimfields33 Aug 2024 #1

Like parks, schools, and libraries, transit should be heavily subsidized. CoopersDad Aug 2024 #2