@kimmaicutler @tolles even weirder, that if private fringe benefit is not taxable, does that make it a de facto subsidy for private transit?
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@kimmaicutler@tolles that if Google buses are not taxable income to employee, does that make it a subsidy to employees to NOT use CalTrain1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rstephens@tolles a google subsidy or a public one?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@kimmaicutler@tolles seems like a subsidy to the individual. Because you pay nothing at all for the transportation.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rstephens@kimmaicutler also, those buses keep cars off the road. Huge public benefit to Bay Area air quality & congestion decrease1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tolles@kimmaicutler agree. But also: at what long term cost to public transit infrastructure? (Hint: I'm hoping this is a future article;)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rstephens@kimmaicutler Bay Area gov'ts have done NOTHING for Silicon Valley workers. No housing, no transit, no love. Co's on their own2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tolles@rstephens how do you finance addl growth? Municipal finance, taxation is severely screwed up in CA.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@kimmaicutler@tolles I'm wondering if millennial attitudes might differ enough from Cold War-era mentality to support better policy.5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@rstephens @tolles how the truly hard problems are never solved by one over the other.
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