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Should public transportation be free?
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RE: Should public transportation be free?
(May 30, 2022 at 7:25 am)Jehanne Wrote:
(May 30, 2022 at 5:45 am)Belacqua Wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that building and maintaining roads for cars costs a lot of money.

Concrete is also a significant source of CO2 emissions.  Free market capitalism has had over 40 years to solve this problem, and it appears that it just won't.  Both Republicans & Democrats are going to carry on until the balloon pops, and when half of modern-day Florida is part of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, people will complain.

Capitalism is by its very natue a system with a short term horizon and one that ignores any external costs.

As I am fond of saying, it is the best economic system apart from all the others.
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Should public transportation be free? - by Fake Messiah - May 30, 2022 at 12:32 am
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by Jehanne - May 30, 2022 at 7:25 am
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by Pat Mustard - May 30, 2022 at 8:00 am
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by Jehanne - May 30, 2022 at 10:06 am
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by Jehanne - May 30, 2022 at 10:14 am
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by Cecelia - May 30, 2022 at 11:47 am
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by brewer - May 30, 2022 at 2:37 pm
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by brewer - May 30, 2022 at 9:12 pm
RE: Should public transportation be free? - by Deesse23 - July 26, 2022 at 9:57 am

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