Comment 15643

By joejoe (anonymous) | Posted December 13, 2007 at 10:54:50

?? Seriously Frank ???!

By that logic my taxes should be paying for freight train costs too! (aren't goods also transported by train?).

Since when was I responsible for paying the cost of Sobey's distribution network? I'm paying for their roads so, what, should I pay for their gas too? And their warehouses?
That argument is nonsense.
Transporting goods is a cost that should be borne by the business not the tax payer. Just like any other distribution and business cost. I'll pay for it in the price of the goods. If the transport system were set up with real costs in mind, carbon taxes (more fuel taxes perhaps? or road tolls?) would be applied in line with the costs of using these networks. Then perhaps we'd have more goods shifted by rail.

Your argument is completely off-the-radar.

Transit should be paid through general levies because we need to start encouraging it's use to save the planet and to reduce road deaths. Any other logic is out of whack. It's really very simple - if we want to encourage a behaviour we reward it. If we want to discourage it - we penalize it.
It seems to me, that if you don't support transit investment or road tolling you don't agree with that central premise and that's your right. Just don't try and dress it up any differently that's all.

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