Assume every tax rate except for the “personal allowance” was increased by 1% to fund free train travel.

Would you be in favour of this?

I’ve not done the math for this (though did look up some stats for a Scotland specific post, and it seems to be feasible: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/44818305). So for the UK it may require a lower or higher increase (and to be fair my Scotland “calculations” were very rough and likely entirely wrong). This is more just a question about whether people would be in favour of something like this in general.

  • Codpiece@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I never use trains, so no. I live in a part of the country where public transport doesn’t work. I’d still have to drive to a station, pay through the nose for parking and then end up nowhere near where I need to be, and probably already late.