The issue is that they consistently lose money and people who will never make use of them have to subsidize it.
A great example is Pennsylvania where they privatized the turnpike but as part of that deal, the turnpike had to pay half a billion a year for 20 years to fund public transit in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So tolls I paid that should have gone to improve the turnpike were instead used as a form of price controls to keep people happy in the cities.
>The issue is that they consistently lose money and people who will never make use of them have to subsidize it.
It's doubtful that congestion pricing is going to lose money given that the roads already exist.
>A great example is Pennsylvania where they privatized the turnpike but as part of that deal, the turnpike had to pay half a billion a year for 20 years to fund public transit in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So tolls I paid that should have gone to improve the turnpike were instead used as a form of price controls to keep people happy in the cities.
A mandatory payment enforced by the government is a "tax", not "price control".
People without cars subsidize street parking and parking minimum mandates by forcing all other uses for land to be more expensive.
People without children subsidize public schools. Healthy people subsidize sick people's insurance. Part of living in communities involve subsidizing services you don't use, that it occurs is not a problem, you need to argue that it should not be subsidized in the first place, and moving people by bus is better than moving people by car in a variety of ways.
The part you're missing: All the people whose public transit you funded aren't driving! It reduced traffic! You benefitted from it, whether you realize it or not. People in the cities pay lots of car and gas-related taxes, despite not owning a car - same thing. That street goes both ways. They fund streets and highways and infrastructure in your area just like you fund public transit in theirs. It's mutually beneficial, even though both parties are funding stuff they may not use.
You see all of those roads in Pennsylvania that you have never driven on? You're paying for them in your taxes. Those people who never drive the roads you use are also helping pay for them. Thats how the system works (as designed).
The party of states rights were only really concerned about one particular right in the mid-19th century. Not sure that’s the reference you want to be bringing up if they are your party of choice.
I wouldn’t discount the internet’s social contagion effect in a lot of what we see in present day culture related to sexual abuse/deviance. Bad stuff happened in every century. In the 21st century, we spread it like a disease. You might even say bad things go viral.
Yeah, between a mix of the lurid details driving clickthroughs and some people feeling that they should publicise it to expose the culprits, it feels like every sex crime in my area makes it to the top of Reddit etc.
This has led to some people having the impression that these crimes are on the rise or at elevated levels compared to the past, when the stats say the opposite (apart from a blip during COVID)
There's also a sub theme of crimes involving foreigners getting more attention, which has also led to the mistaken impression that foreigners commit disproportionate amounts of sex crime.
I used to be on a chemo drug and had to take folic acid every day to stop it from doing bad things to me.
I had awful ulcers in my mouth from the chemo drug and had been taking the folic acid in the morning. Through forgetfulness I ended up shifting the folic acid to the afternoon and the ulcers went away and never came back.
And to think about how often such things are figured out individually, but go unnoticed, because there's basically 0 chance for the average person to get anyone to do a study on it.
My guess on some of this has to do with a few things. Hormone levels vary throughout the day along with immune system activity; My allergies are always worse in the morning than the day. I'm sure time is a huge component in a lot of medical things but I haven't personally seen any studies on this.
Most people also fast at night (sleeping) and are less physically active etc etc.
Yes this is because they walk. It really has nothing to do with food if you're at the activity level of the typical American (which is zero, to be clear).
My typing class was one of the first in my school to use computers. Honestly we were probably a couple years behind other schools in this regard. I can still remember some of the students breaking down in tears because up until that point in their lives, they’d never touched a computer. These were high schoolers around 1997 or so.
This sounds like you are in favor of the government regulating that people must shop in a certain store in order to achieve some arbitrary color integration number.
Many responded to my comment and no one else had your interpretation. I suggest reading better. I didn't say anything about the government telling people where to shop.
A great example is Pennsylvania where they privatized the turnpike but as part of that deal, the turnpike had to pay half a billion a year for 20 years to fund public transit in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So tolls I paid that should have gone to improve the turnpike were instead used as a form of price controls to keep people happy in the cities.
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