The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain

Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by notacoward on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:37AM (#19572802)

I think you're mixing up two meanings of "free" here. Sure, your drive is not free as in beer, but it's still free as in speech. The whole point of the OP is that your drive was never free as in beer. Somebody has always been paying for it. It might not make sense for every road to be a toll road, but it makes even less sense for none to be.

It's funny how many people think the relationship between prices, supply, and demand is just the bee's knees ... until it comes to use taxes or fees that directly affect their own behavior.

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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by wutbrodo on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:32PM (#19574236)

My favorite example was the blind rage with which almost everyone I know reacted to airlines starting to charge for bags. Even the most libertarian, "taxes are theft" people I talked to would sputter to come up with some insane rationalization when bagless flyers like myself should be subsidizing their baggage.

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