Re:Narrow tracks forcing trains to creep at walking pace on ...
by gottorf on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:40PM
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> I don't have children but I'm happy to pay taxes that support public schools because I reap the benefits of an educated populace.
This is actually a pretty apt comparison, since the original article of the thread was about the dysfunction of the Green Line Extension. Suppose you lived in Baltimore, where zero students passed grade-level math proficiency in 40% of public schools, and yet the school system CEO is paid half a million dollars a year. Would you be as keen on paying those taxes? After all, you really aren't getting the benefits of an educated populace in that case.
If the T cost a lot of money and provided great service, we wouldn't be having this discussion. It's the fact that it costs a lot of money and is still bad, and the proposed solution is yet more public funding for it, which is generating the discussion.
This is actually a pretty apt comparison, since the original article of the thread was about the dysfunction of the Green Line Extension. Suppose you lived in Baltimore, where zero students passed grade-level math proficiency in 40% of public schools, and yet the school system CEO is paid half a million dollars a year. Would you be as keen on paying those taxes? After all, you really aren't getting the benefits of an educated populace in that case.
If the T cost a lot of money and provided great service, we wouldn't be having this discussion. It's the fact that it costs a lot of money and is still bad, and the proposed solution is yet more public funding for it, which is generating the discussion.