01-14-2023, 01:23 PM
(01-14-2023, 12:25 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(01-13-2023, 08:20 PM)ac3r Wrote: I certainly support it. And I also think the region should offer free transit to the homeless (if they can somehow prove they are...not sure how they'd do that however) rather than discounted fares. It would facilitate them with finding a job (and then getting to it), seeing family and friends who can act like social supports, going to psychiatric or social support obligations and potentially get them out of downtown to a better designed, maintained and secured (24/7 security) encampments the region is attempting to get operational. Many complained the proposals are too far away and that is very true, so maybe having free transit for them to get to ones further away and would hopefully lessen the size and number of the shanty and tent towns they've got set up.
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?