Re: [Bikies] Bus Passes]

[Eric Westhagen]

To:  Dar, Dorthy Krause, Certainly anything is possible and preposterous in funding costs of certain non-economic public services.  But paying for individual  municipal transit systems from a State wide gas tax increase is a real stretch of the redistribution format.  Alternatively, redistribution from the graduated income taxes is equally far fetched.  Closer to home would be a city only surcharge for income taxes, but would not be legal.  Lets face it.  The bus lines should pay for themselves.  Either find lower cost vehicles or lower cost management.  Every municipally owned transit system is bloated in that regard.  When the DC Transit was forced to become municipal, the management size instantly quadrupled.  Why hasn't someone presented the personal break even point between fares and a person actually driving and parking.  That is not with all this "cost to society" estimated hypothetical calculation?  I am sure it would still be a "personal bargain" over car expenses if rates were raised to cover the deficits.  Eric Dar Ward wrote: I'm not an expert on gas taxes...but I believe that those taxes tend to flow into federal and state coffers to be used for whatever programs those governments have designated. One of those locations (the only one?) is the Highway Trust Fund...which is used in small part to fund transit.  According to this website (http://www.artba.org/economics_research/reports/gas_tax_history.htm) in the late 1990s of an 18 cent tax about 3 cents went to transit. -Dar -----Original Message----- From: Krause, Dorothy Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:16 PM To: 'rob...@robbiewebber.org' Subject: Re: [Bikies] bus fare increase Thanks for that, Robbie. Along the same lines, when I went to MATC, apparently I would have been eligible for a free bus pass, tho I didn't get one because I drove. I think the UW has an arrangement like that as well. How do those work? I've also wondered whether transit gets gas tax money? It would seem that would be a relative fair way of spreading out the cost, as well as being a bit of a 'sin tax' on us auto drivers. Thanks for info! Dorothy _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list Bikies@lists.danenet.org http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org

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