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Article #155Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
From: Derek K. Miller
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:40
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:40
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In article <1992Nov8.061620.6455@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
>Let's make a deal: I'll agree to pay the full share of road costs for
>my driving, if transit users pay for the full cost of their transit
>use. I won't face having to pay any more money though, because gasoline
>taxes make up for at least 50% of the price of gas, and gas taxes already
>raise exorbitant amounts of revenue for the government.
>
Sure. Provided that we can somehow factor into the cost accouning the
indirect environmental costs of the fossil fuels you burn, pollutants
you produce, and those of the mining a manufacturing for your car
(and those of the buses too, of course).
Ah yes, just let people pay for only those things they use. That wayu,
no one will ever change.
:=:=> Derek K. Miller dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
Researcher, Alma Mater Society thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
University of British Columbia, Canada
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!utcsri!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!dkmiller From: dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller) Newsgroups: bc.general Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills Date: 10 Nov 1992 19:40:38 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 20 Distribution: bc Message-ID: <1dp37mINNf1c@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <1d947tINN4j3@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <L7TVTB1w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> <1992Nov8.061620.6455@ee.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca