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.

  • cynar@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I wouldn’t go for “free”, that would lead to a lot of abuse of it. We only have so much capacity right now. A 90%+ discount on current prices, definitely.

    I rarely use the trains right now, mostly down to costs. It’s so much cheaper to drive.