> So you are wrong. Taxes may improve driving experience.
No, they don't. If I pay more for driving, that makes my driving experience worse.
> The same goes in reverse: that senior citizen does not suffer than much from waiting for the bus and wasting extra 2 hours per day -- as you do [from wasting 2 hours per day].
No, it doesn't. The biggest problem with the bus is not that it's slow but that it's extremely unpleasant to use.
> Collected taxes allow to build more roads.
If they were spent on the roads. The problem is that they aren't. What I'm arguing for is that the right way is to collect the taxes and use them to build more roads, not diverting them towards "alternative means of transportation". To build the alternative means of transportation, tax or better yet, whenever possible charge per-use the users of these alternative means. Spending the road taxes on the "alternative means" is a 100% waste.
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Date: 2018-06-09 12:11 am (UTC)No, they don't. If I pay more for driving, that makes my driving experience worse.
> The same goes in reverse: that senior citizen does not suffer than much from waiting for the bus and wasting extra 2 hours per day -- as you do [from wasting 2 hours per day].
No, it doesn't. The biggest problem with the bus is not that it's slow but that it's extremely unpleasant to use.
> Collected taxes allow to build more roads.
If they were spent on the roads. The problem is that they aren't. What I'm arguing for is that the right way is to collect the taxes and use them to build more roads, not diverting them towards "alternative means of transportation". To build the alternative means of transportation, tax or better yet, whenever possible charge per-use the users of these alternative means. Spending the road taxes on the "alternative means" is a 100% waste.