Why isn't public transport free?

[criptix]

Taxes + tickets + ads revenues... All of this to pay executives and press relation managers high salaries?

You are brain washed by Cultural Marxism dear mr. Communist.

The walfare rats like you and etc. Pp. Dont deserve and need that.
Next thing is free homes, cars and flying saucers for them?!


I just found you OP:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3793976/Mother-five-pockets-19-000-year-benefits-says-needs-t-afford-buy-school-uniforms-children.html

[BADecker]

Taxes + tickets + ads revenues... All of this to pay executives and press relation managers high salaries?

You are brain washed by Cultural Marxism dear mr. Communist.

The walfare rats like you and etc. Pp. Dont deserve and need that.
Next thing is free homes, cars and flying saucers for them?!


I just found you OP:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3793976/Mother-five-pockets-19-000-year-benefits-says-needs-t-afford-buy-school-uniforms-children.html

I'm not really disagreeing with you, but consider...

If you lost your arm in a car accident, where would you ever get another? Science doesn't know how to grow you another arm. And all their plastic and metal arms are way worse than your original. Even the few bionic ones are a bit of a problem, besides costing a fortune.

The point? The best things in life are free. And not only that, but there is nowhere else to get them when you lose them. So, why isn't free schooling and transportation built into life? Oh that's right. The best way to learn is by experience. And we DO have our feet and legs for free transportation.

[awesome31312]

Gasoline is expensive and costs money, and Big Oil does not want us to make the switch to Hemp.

That is the shortest answer, and is the only way to answer it in one line without thorough discussion.

[siagelo]

maybe even they work for public , some people need to get paid too that is why we pay for public transportt

[SphynX18]

Here in our country all public transport has fees but there are special days where Government let the people use it for free. I think here it will be scary if the public transport will be free. Because right now that we are paying to use it we are not satisfied with the service we got. Like for example waiting in the line for hours, out of service comfort rooms, not working escalators or elevators, defective aircons, no benches in the waiting area, defective trains, delayed arrival of the transport. We all experienced it even we pay for the service. How much more if we get it for free  I just hope that our Government will take an immediate action to resolve these issues. That's why I envy those countries who can get it for free at the same time having the best service experience.

[v1ryspro]

Here in our country all oublic transfort has fees but there are special days where Government let the people use it for free. I think here it will be scary if the public transport will be free. Because right that we are paying to use it we are not satisfied with the service we got. Like for example waiting in the line for hours, out of service comfort rooms, not working escalators or elevators, defective aircons, no benches in the waiting area, defective trains, delayed arrival of the transpost. We all experience it even we pay for the service. How much more if we get it for free  I just the our Government will take an immediate action to resolve these issues. That's why I envy those countries who can get it for free at the same time having the best service experience.

Transport cannot be free. I saw a case where a grandmother had a free ride rode the bus to the other end of town because there product was 1% cheaper. For all this populism is paid by the taxpayer.

[bryant.coleman]

Transport cannot be free. I saw a case where a grandmother had a free ride rode the bus to the other end of town because there product was 1% cheaper. For all this populism is paid by the taxpayer.

Nothing in this world is free. Even if the public transport is made heavily subsidized or free, you must remember that the tax paper is sponsoring the expenses. The expenses for running this program comes from the federal budget, which in turn depends on the hard working people for the revenues. This is the reason why I am against free public transport.

[merchantofzeny]

Someone has to build the vehicles, drill for oil, mine for coal, etc. People got into this for business so it's only natural that they'd want profit. Although I suppose it's possible to have free transportation if you have cheap oil or if the country has a renewable source of green energy, like how the Norwegians use electric cars because they got geothermal plants. If that's the case people can insist the gov't provide this for free, they can just simply but the vehicles and just use the readily available cheap oil/green energy.

[Mersedes]

Transport cannot be free. I saw a case where a grandmother had a free ride rode the bus to the other end of town because there product was 1% cheaper. For all this populism is paid by the taxpayer.

Nothing in this world is free. Even if the public transport is made heavily subsidized or free, you must remember that the tax paper is sponsoring the expenses. The expenses for running this program comes from the federal budget, which in turn depends on the hard working people for the revenues. This is the reason why I am against free public transport.

Benefits of transportation is a thing of the past. People have to make so much money that they could afford not only the transportation, and everything else. I do think that the standard of living of the people depends not so much on the development of the economy but from government policy.

[Sithara007]

Transport cannot be free. I saw a case where a grandmother had a free ride rode the bus to the other end of town because there product was 1% cheaper. For all this populism is paid by the taxpayer.

Nothing in this world is free. Even if the public transport is made heavily subsidized or free, you must remember that the tax paper is sponsoring the expenses. The expenses for running this program comes from the federal budget, which in turn depends on the hard working people for the revenues. This is the reason why I am against free public transport.

Benefits of transportation is a thing of the past. People have to make so much money that they could afford not only the transportation, and everything else.

I have seen a lot of my friends struggling to afford transportation. Some of them travel as much as 30 km to work, and spend almost 4 hours everyday in conveyance. They have to depend upon public transport, as they don't have their own vehicles.

[BitcoinPicasso]

How can it be free when we have inflation? Every year things cost more, gas, salaries and even transit tickets. Its all part of the big machine that runs our countries..

[Gasturcas]

In my own opinion, there are more important things the Government should support and provide for free. Examples are as follows: Hospitals, education, basic necessities in life like food, shelter etc. Fare or transportation expense is kind a bit cheaper than the needs I provided. They should focus more on Education and Health so that people can build a foundation to support their lives in the future.

[Kotone]

Taxes + tickets + ads revenues... All of this to pay executives and press relation managers high salaries?

It always depends on the place there are some transport that are totaly free and there are some transport that are need to pay fee because the daily maintenance that they need for the car and there are some important things that goverment should support to have more transportation.

[Sithara007]

In my own opinion, there are more important things the Government should support and provide for free. Examples are as follows: Hospitals, education, basic necessities in life like food, shelter etc. Fare or transportation expense is kind a bit cheaper than the needs I provided. They should focus more on Education and Health so that people can build a foundation to support their lives in the future.

I agree with this. Education and healthcare are the most basic necessities. And both are getting more and more unaffordable now. A good medical insurance can cost at least $5,000 per year for a single individual in the United States. Who can afford such policies?

[canah17]

Taxes + tickets + ads revenues... All of this to pay executives and press relation managers high salaries?

I really want it to be free because the government pays the transport right? but still we pay -_- its really because the government have the slightest care about the civilians problem if that is applied to once's country then that problem will be solve in an instant but still its not the main problem of the government really its just they don't know how hard it really is to be a civilian with no service only paying public transport and i am even mad because they are not going to add some of the transportation when i was going ride a public transport its really crowded i have to wait for 2 hours to come ride a public transport again -_- i mean really the government don't even realize that we work hard to pay our taxes and they gave us more stressful time -_- if you report then they will ignore it -_-

[kodoll]

In my own opinion, there are more important things the Government should support and provide for free. Examples are as follows: Hospitals, education, basic necessities in life like food, shelter etc. Fare or transportation expense is kind a bit cheaper than the needs I provided. They should focus more on Education and Health so that people can build a foundation to support their lives in the future.

I agree with this. Education and healthcare are the most basic necessities. And both are getting more and more unaffordable now. A good medical insurance can cost at least $5,000 per year for a single individual in the United States. Who can afford such policies?

If desired, the Americans can afford health insurance for $ 5,000. Just for this you need to give up some other benefits, and they are not willing to do. You in Russia for the worst quality of health care pay a higher percentage of payroll for health insurance.

[asdin66fa]

There is no charge at all, that is what the socialist society will have. Anything is a paid action. You may only pay a part, another part of the government to help you advance.

[Hiren74]

Feels like it should be free via government but yeah taxes and salaries take a major dip !

[A!]

Transport free can be free + clothing + food + house + health + education. But you also need to work for free. Do you agree with it?

But sometime in the near future within 100 years. Once every work is occupied by robots the government are oblige to give the citizens its basic needs.

[bryant.coleman]

Feels like it should be free via government but yeah taxes and salaries take a major dip !

If it is made free, then crooked parasitic people will exploit the option for free travel. In the end, those who need to travel will not be able to do so, because of the crowd.

In my own opinion, there are more important things the Government should support and provide for free. Examples are as follows: Hospitals, education, basic necessities in life like food, shelter etc. Fare or transportation expense is kind a bit cheaper than the needs I provided. They should focus more on Education and Health so that people can build a foundation to support their lives in the future.

I agree with this. Education and healthcare are the most basic necessities. And both are getting more and more unaffordable now. A good medical insurance can cost at least $5,000 per year for a single individual in the United States. Who can afford such policies?

If desired, the Americans can afford health insurance for $ 5,000. Just for this you need to give up some other benefits, and they are not willing to do. You in Russia for the worst quality of health care pay a higher percentage of payroll for health insurance.

Stay on the topic. Healthcare in Russia, and the other eastern European nations is much more affordable than the same in the United States.