Post #2404613

2026-03-28 14:33 UTC

@rrustema020@mastodon.nl @peterbrown@mastodon.scot @MrAndrewD@aus.social @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com You're arguing that creating a tax system that increases the costs of running a taxi and makes taxis more expensive will discourage cars and encourage the use of public transport. You might be right - but if public transport does not fill the need (eg. if the quantity/quality/reliability of public transport is poor), all you will do is deprive people who would otherwise do that job of a livelihood and create a shortage of taxis.

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@peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2026-03-28 15:02

@dneary@mastodon.ie @rrustema020@mastodon.nl @MrAndrewD@aus.social @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com many taxi drivers will be affected and will increase prices but the majority of delivery drivers on bicycles and motorbikes do not earn enough to pay any tax at all so the effect will be zero. But there is quite a constituency of workers who use cars but don’t really need to and they get them tax free. A wealthy country is not one where everybody has a car, but where the rich use public transport.

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@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com 2026-03-28 14:57

@dneary@mastodon.ie @rrustema020@mastodon.nl @peterbrown@mastodon.scot @MrAndrewD@aus.social You will also make it significantly more difficult to properly fund public transportation if the alternatives are artificially cheap through subsidies and tax breaks. Cars are extremely harmful to society. They should not receive any subsidies of any kind at all.

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