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(Seiji Inaoka) summoned the power of the electron to profess:

|In article <alan.tidwell.34.843064762@conted.gatech.edu>,
|Alan Tidwell <alan.tidwell@conted.gatech.edu> wrote:
|>
|>I believe the negative arguments are from people who do not wish to pay 
|>additional transportation or parking fees in order to help subsidize a 
|>discount for a service that is not available in their area or does not fit 
|>their lifestyle.  This is a valid argument in my opinion.
|
|Look at other posts in this thread from ***very reliable*** source. None
|of such ****very reliable**** source never mentioned additional mandatory
|fees. This misunderstanding makes this thread very complicated, messed,
|etc. Please spread the word whenever we see others saying such things!!

That's because there was a thread about MARTA (related to the topic here) 
that suggested all students pay a mandatory fee for MARTA so that a volume 
discount could be had.  The two threads are merging (although they were not 
very far apart to begin with).

|I understand MARTA discount program is made possible without fees. I do
|not know well about GSU pilot program, but in the case of the MARTA
|Partnership program (for company employees), the amount of discount can be
|well cancelled by the company's tax deduction, I think. 

MARTA's discount program is the same as any other company's program:  buy 
enough units of whatever they're selling and they'll reduce the cost a little 
so that you pay less but they still make a profit.  To do what people are 
suggesting, which would be a substantial discount in cost, money would have 
to be found to make up the difference between what is collected and what is 
paid to MARTA.  This is where the hypothetical fee is entering.

The Partnership program would work for employees but not students.  We don't 
get paid by Tech to be here (I wish :( ) so they can't discount us.