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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
And in the very first article is this sentence:-
" With just a marginal tax-raise, the public transport system could be made free at the point of entry…"
Free? It's being pre-paid for by taxes, which makes me think our ideas of "free", may be somewhat different Marge.  |
The swedish way is to only have
high earners pay extra tax - so the low income people (who can't afford cars) get it free.
There are some savings by not financing a ticket system - cost of printing, sale of, monitoring abuse of - tickets.
I don't think the principle is unrealistic at all.