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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VA gas tax is the 11th lowest in the nation.

Gas tax in CA is almost three times higher, and they have many more Latinos.

Evidently this is not an issue that Latinos care about, or CA Latinos would have voted against it.[/quote]

Uuuhhh that assumes they can legally vote. Anyhow, gas tax is a consumption tax. Pretty fair but yes it hurts those with less income the hardest.  Not sure why Latinos are being singled out here. Plenty of blacks, Asians, whites, and indigenous persons that are poor too. [b]It is kind of why public transportation was created. [/b]
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Nah, public transportation was created because it's an efficient way to get people from here to there. [/quote]

Previous PP do you really think that public transportation is for poor people? Wow. Why do you think housing on metro lines are more expensive? So poor people can live there?  As the PP above mentioned it is for efficiency.  Can you imagine if everyone who takes the metro or metro bus drove every day.  Traffic would be even worse than it is today.   Further public transportation is not always a cheaper option.  I had a friend who moved to cut down on his metro costs.  Between parking and round trip fares for him and his wife it was over $30 per day.  They could have driven for cheaper but it would have taken twice as long.

And if it is for poor people why do so many famous people take the subway in NY.  Efficiency.  [/quote]

It is a viable option for the poor. It was created to serve the masses, including the poor, and to create efficiencies. It was not a singular criteria decision. I should have stated “one of the reasons” not “the reason.”  Yes rich people can ride too but they can also afford not to if and when needed or wanted. The point being that the poor have an alternative to expensive gas and cars. [/quote]

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