Reply #4: I live in an area with MINIMAL public transportation [View All]

[Donnachaidh]

And quite honestly, I don't want to fund airlines with taxes. We've had too many of these merger deals going through, and that fund could turn into yet more corporate welfare. If we still had small airlines that could really use the help, I'd be more inclined to go for it.

Personally, *rich* people have had ENOUGH help in this country -- they should pay FULL fare.

We're in a suburb of Atlanta. The county has buses, but you really cannot call it public transport, because there aren't enough buses, or routes, to even use it as an alternative. They've gotten around to setting up buses that will take daily commuters into Atlanta, but the parking lots are too darned small, and AGAIN, not enough buses.

In larger cities with established and well run transit (man I miss the subways in NYC) I could see this going over. But I live in the land of the oversized SUV and the trucks with *them BIG Tires* - and any breaks would be used to make more roads. I don't see Atlanta coming up with anything realistic in my neck of the woods anytime soon. :grr: