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Conservative Funding Dissonance
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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It's wild to me that people will say this, then drive on a government subsidized/built road, buy government subsidized fuel, literally walk into a government building to register their vehicles (with the government, so that their vehicles can be properly taxed by the government), and pay for government mandated insurance (that they have to pay for again to actually use).
But I'm a chump for paying for unlimited rides once a month. Okay 👌😒.
"But by providing car infrastructure, government enables economic development!"
"Yeah, that goes for train infrastructure too, you know."
Over here, government still provides the roads, but pulled back sharply on providing parking infrastructure. That's privatized. Good luck finding anything nearby for less than €20 per day.
Yea why should I pay for you to leave your machine on the street? I'd rather have something useful
Which country?
Antwerp city. They're trying to push people to park outside the city for cheap and take public transportation.
Sounds nice 💚
They think gas taxes pay for it.
They're supposed to but well, you know
What’s funny is in practice the government spends more money subsidising vehicle fuels than they earn from taxes on the fuel.