Comment 15719

By kevin (registered) | Posted December 15, 2007 at 08:24:37

We lived in Japan for a couple years in the 90s. In that country, you keep about 98% of your paycheck, but everything has users fees, especially driving (high taxes and fuel prices, road tolls...) The public transit systen in Nagoya, where we were, was very efficient and there were bike paths everywhere. Guess what?We didn't own a car and rode our bikes everywhere. We saved $, got fit, and really got to know our city, not just the major arteries from home to work.

In that scenario, as RTH advocates, you have much, much, much more disposable incomee, which spend locally - in your neighbourhood - and small businesses thrive.

This "leftie" will tell you, it IS business, it's just not big and gross and greedy and destructive and subsidised and auto-dependent and generic and souless and stooped....

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