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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (124088)9/18/2000 5:48:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1572099
 
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That's what people chose to do, given a choice.

What individual people prefer is not always what's best for society in general.

Routinely imposing a vision of what is best of society in
general over individual choice (beyond what is nessiary to maintain public order and protect peoples lives and rights) leads us closer to totalitarian government.

....more and more middle and an upper class people turn to mass transit as an alternative so long as it gets them there faster and is pleasant.

If people actually want to use public transportation then fine, (If they are driving they are most likely using public roads anyway there are few major private roads), as long as the incentive is the quality convience or other advantages of public transportation rather then punitive taxation against cars and such. In a recent post I posted that I might support increased gas taxes (if other taxes where lowered) but I probably would not. I do not support the general idea of using taxes to manipulate behavior. I would prefer broad based simple and low taxes on either income or spending (sales taxes). I don't like the government introducing tons of incentives to do one thing and punishments for doing something else into the tax code.

Tim
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