[lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan

[shag]

At 04:18 PM 4/8/2008, Michael Smith wrote:
>On Tuesday 08 April 2008 16:01:01 Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
> > I believe, however, that transportation infrastructure (along with a
> > host of other things, all of them Good For You And Yours) ought to be
> > significantly subsidized by the government.
>
>So... users should bear internalized transportation costs apart from
>"infrastructure", which should come out of the general fund?
>
>What's the reasoning here? A dollar is a dollar,
>whether it goes for "infrastructure" or operating cost, no?

well, then why not? Jordan's saying that the people who support a use tax 
are doing so because they *also* want to punish people in order to change 
their behavior.

_they_ aren't treating a dollar as a dollar. They are treating dollars as a 
source of funds and a source of education (discpline)

Jordan seems to be arguing that this is ineffective, *especially* when it 
comes to those with plenty of  surplus cash. they will insist on driving 
for the status benefit, cost be damned.

worse, this way of collecting the dollars that are just dollars turns out 
to have costs associated with it that you woouldn't have if you collected 
the dollars another way.

i think i've got that right. admittedly i am not giving this my full 
attention. sorry jord.

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