by Kris Kennedy

Created on: August 28, 2008   Last Updated: September 25, 2009

Free Public Transportation

Passengers take public transportation to cut transportation costs. Who would pick up the cost of free public transportation? The answer would have to be taxpayers. Federal money does not come from the sky. It comes from taxation. A user tax of fare is fair.

Justification

The advantage of public transportation rests with additional riders sharing the same energy and space on the road. All citizens benefit from fewer cars on the road, but the single cars are still purchasing personal gasoline, insurance and automobile costs without assistance. The riders on public transportation need transportation just as the driver's of personal automobiles. A fair cost of opening space on the highways does not appear to the passing of cost onto the personal drivers through gasoline and other taxes while riders ride free.

The transportation possesses costs such as fuel, employee and administration. The costs generated by the public entity need payment. If the organization does not generate any funds than public would pick up the cost. User taxes are fair taxes, because citizens using the services pay the tax. A user tax is simply a purchase of the services provided by the tax. Some steps might provide means to keep the price low and reflect the benefit to the public and justify some funding through governmental funding.

Help for lower cost

Many public transit services like Ben Franklin Transit in Tri-Cities WA provide the handicapped a free or reduce monthly bus pass. With this provision, the community provides a savings to the taxpayers through providers and caretakers not using personal cars at reimbursed expense by taxpayer or shared funded programs. The disabled would not provide a user tax, but reimbursed through tax savings.

In Seattle and many other community a reduce cost bus pass is provided for nonprofit attraction employees o a highly tourist area. This takes the employees cars out of the tourist area. These employees receive one of the lower pay rates in the area and their cars would need parking space at a high rate of cost or use of land not available for tourist activities. Freeing parking space for tourists and other employees of the area helps all of the Seattle Center area. Through providing savings to others, another group earns a break of the user taxes.

Many examine the savings of expense and take public transportation. With this savings, these riders benefit.Passing untraceable expenses to the tax system causes a swelling of the deficit. With management, citizens pay true cost.

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