• BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    We can’t hold every type of tax-incentive based progress hostage because our culture won’t tolerate day-fines or other income-scaled penalties. I mean we could, but it wouldn’t make sense. This is a good program and it has an option for low income people to pay less. Furthermore we can always funnel money from rich to poor in other ways (e.g. through unrelated).

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      3 days ago

      and it has an option for low income people to pay less.

      You’ve never been poor have you. Its an extra 300 bucks taken away for no benefit, assuming they qualify for the low income benefit, and its 400 fliushed down the tubes if they dont.

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        Maybe if you are that poor don’t pilot your personal vehicle into the congested parts of Manhattan, where you pay for parking on top of the general costs of your car such as insurance and fuel.

        Take the subway like me and a million others.

        Remind me your grand plan to institute day fines again?

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          Maybe if you are that poor don’t pilot your personal vehicle

          And there it is. That privilege. “if you’re that poor”.

          Remind me your grand plan to institute day fines again?

          Progressive tax on a scarce resource based on income. Complete exemptions for disabled. Better rates for working poor than 25% off.

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        There are a multitude of options to get into Manhattan for less money than driving, and they have higher throughput.