Grand River Transit

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Of course, this would further increase the effective marginal tax rate applying to low-income people.

What would increase the tax rate? I don't think free transit would be taxable, would it?

I think the point is that the marginal increase in going from homeless to housed-but-low-income would now be larger. Someone making that transition would, in addition to suddenly having to pay for rent, also effectively have their taxes (in the form of transit user fees) raised. I believe the suggestion is that free transit should perhaps be more gradually phased out.