Public transit fares are generally malformed. I personally never pay the LA Metro fare. Why? Because I pay the Metrolink fare, which by their own admission covers same-day Metro transit. But police will actively seek me out as a person who looks like they have money and give me a hard time for not “tapping”, all while folks who very clearly have no money waltz on into the metro, stopping only to smoke crack on the elevator up. There’s a general problem in this country of what to do with law breakers who do not have money. It seems like the answer is to make them work and garnish their wages, but for whatever reason we are against that.
Yea the police are always giving such a hard time to people who don’t look poor. It’s so unfair that someone who can and does apparently pay for public transit has to prove they did.
“I have a legitimate Metrolink fare and should not be hassled when I don’t tap. These other people who don’t look like me obviously do not have the Metrolink fare and should be hassled when they don’t tap.”
Same guy earlier upthread
Yea the police are always giving such a hard time to people who don’t look poor. It’s so unfair that someone who can and does apparently pay for public transit has to prove they did.
“I have a legitimate Metrolink fare and should not be hassled when I don’t tap. These other people who don’t look like me obviously do not have the Metrolink fare and should be hassled when they don’t tap.”
“poor people have had it too good for too long and slavery is the only answer. I consider myself a pragmatic centrist”