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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Good. Why should taxpayers subsidize people's commutes? I've been working for 30 years and no employer ever gave me money to get to work. That was just part of the cost of having a job. [/quote]

Hey, dumb dumb..because it is in everyone's best interest. It reduces the cost of metro commute which means there are ~700K fewer people on the roads.. which means you have a better commute when you drive to work.

Dont just jump research and then talk. [/quote]
Hey dumkopf....I know what the purpose is supposed to be. I just doubt that all these people earning $300,000 a year are going to change their transportation preferences based on a couple of hundred dollars, especially when driving - with the gas, tolls up to $40 on 66, downtown parking, etc. - will still be more expensive.

You think all those people on the metro are subsidized by other commuters? Definitely not. [/quote]

DP here and first of all it's Dummkopf.  Get your German right.

Seconf of all, there are tons of people earning below 75k -- the DC median income -- for whom that subsidy is a lifesaver.  People without cars, even, who won't be able to switch to driving.

Get out of your elitist bubble.  Just because you and everyone you know earns well over the median income, doesn't mean everyone does.

And everyone knows that people earning 300k don't use public transportation to get to work.  They just don't.[/quote]
First....dumkopf kept auto-correcting. See? There it goes again.

Second, who says I'm in an elitist bubble? I was earning $80k at my last job, and took the metro. No subsidy. I also was earning around $35k at my first job, and also took the metro. No subsidy. I just had to pay for it myself. I didn't expect other taxpayers to subsidize me.

If people need more money to commute, then employers need to pay them more. Why should taxpayers have to offset the employer's compensation costs?

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"Then employers need to pay them more."  Yeah, that'll work!  Why don't you try telling your own employer you want to be paid more to offset your commute and see how that goes?

And speaking of why taxpayers should pay for businesses and corporations to get tax benefits, uh HELLO????  Have you NOT been paying attention to the tax bill the Republicans have been trying to shove down our collective American throat?

You can either give corporations huge tax cuts and hope pretty please they take that money and pass it along to their employees (hee hee) or you can give them incentives to do it by giving them tax credits for when they do more for their employees.  You prefer to live in a society where we are at the mercy of corporations' goodness because for some reason you think corporations have our best interest at heart.  Bless you.  You'd probably go back to when there were no labor laws and children as young as 8 were working in factories with no safety measures.  Because at least they were contributing to society, hey?[/quote]

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