If people keep saying stupid shit like "We can't subsidize Amtrak because that's communism" without seeing the sheer irony of that, we're going to be ridiculous until always.
(Seriously, I got into an argument with a conservative at a neighbor's house when she said we "don't have a right" to public transportation. After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I said, "Do you think roads are free?" Because do you seriously not realize that oil companies are subsidized heavily, that road building is subsidized heavily, and that the taxes we pay on fuel etc don't come close to covering the cost of building roads? No matter how conservatives like to say that roads are self-funding?)
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Date: 2013-02-08 10:02 pm (UTC)From:(Seriously, I got into an argument with a conservative at a neighbor's house when she said we "don't have a right" to public transportation. After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I said, "Do you think roads are free?" Because do you seriously not realize that oil companies are subsidized heavily, that road building is subsidized heavily, and that the taxes we pay on fuel etc don't come close to covering the cost of building roads? No matter how conservatives like to say that roads are self-funding?)