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Yeah!

Why should I pay for schools, I don’t have kids? It’s not like it benefits our entire country’s future.

Why should I pay for hospitals, I’m not sick. Not like my taxes are being used to help people who really really need it, and whose families are devastated

I don’t have access to a railway station either, should I pay for quieter, safer roads and communities, and making life easier for my fellow citizens?

You sound like a yank

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Kids don’t have jobs and people don’t choose to get sick. People do choose to ride trains. Do you just think nobody should ever pay for anything? Haven’t we seen enough times how that works in practice?

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Nobody chooses to ride trains except old steam trains, stuff like the Orient Express

99% of people use trains because they need them, usually to get to work.

You’d be about as effective an economist as Liz The Lettuce

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People absolutely do choose trains over cars, when the train is actually viable. Just because that isn’t a thing in the UK doesn’t mean it couldn’t be.

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Trains are not the only way to travel. Your definition of ‘need’ is so broad as to encompass most of the economy. Organizing society on the basis of that kind of thinking has been tried and the results are invariably disastrous.

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Didn’t read the article huh?

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I did read the article, I think the fine was too harsh for an honest mistake. But I wasn’t responding to the article, I was responding to someone celebrating the railways losing money because of people not paying their fares.

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