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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by josephcsible on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:28AM (#27576574)
> Why don't we see public transportation as one of your "public goods"?

By definition, public goods must be non-excludable. Public transportation is excludable.

> Is it possible those people who you say are so concerned about value are maybe not seeing how they gain from having public transportation for their community, or are they more concerned about someone else deriving more value from a service than they would?

The problem isn't that the value to someone else is greater than the value to them. It's that what they'd pay for it in taxes is greater than the value to them.

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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by tshaddox on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:11AM (#27576738)
> Is it possible those people who you say are so concerned about value are maybe not seeing how they gain from having public transportation for their community

The commenter seems to be talking about the part of public transportation that isn’t excludable.

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