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To: Willie Green
I've been waiting for YOU to cite one major mode of our transportation infrastructure that HASN'T benefitted from some form of government assistance. You CAN'T.

My argument wasn't that infrastructure isn't supported by tax dollars -- it was that mass transit needs proportionally more designated government subsidies because nobody wants to use it. This is in contrast to highway/road infrastructure, which is completely tax supported by its USERS (excise taxes on tires and gasoline). I also made the point that local governments attempt to force transport behavior into mass transit to prop up their unused, unwanted transit systems. They do this by creating disincentives for people to use their own vehicles.

My final point was that is isn't "conservative" to attempt to shoehorn society into niches that you think appropriate. It's authoritarian social engineering.

But you knew that.

And I see that you're still clueless.

But, I knew that. :-)

63 posted on 04/09/2002 1:53:44 PM PDT by Cincinatus
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To: Cincinatus
because nobody wants to use it.

Earth to Cincinatus...

Earth to Cincinatus...

MILLIONS of Americans use public mass-transportation on a daily basis...

Please extract your head from your rectum accordingly...

That is all. Over and out.

64 posted on 04/09/2002 2:11:57 PM PDT by Willie Green
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