01-15-2023, 05:29 PM
(01-15-2023, 03:41 AM)taylortbb Wrote:(01-14-2023, 01:23 PM)tomh009 Wrote: 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.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Correct.
Except that, rather than phasing it out gradually, my solution is not to have free transit, discounted utilities, etc. and etc. ad infinitum, but just to have a guaranteed minimum income. Then everybody can participate in the economy without poorer people having to apply for all sorts of complicated income support programs.