• Not_mikey@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Are you against those taxes then, cause the premise sounds fair. Cars are dangerous and pollute a lot, whether they’re in the countryside or in the city.

    They’re also expensive, especially older ones that you have to repair constantly. Seems you’ll do more good for the poor in the countryside making the public transit better than getting rid of the tax. You know, direct your energy into something positive like sustainable public transit, instead of a technology that’s slowly killing us.

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      9 months ago

      It’s almost a moot point in his case. The Belgian “countryside” is all towns and small cities. Every bit of it should be served by some kind of transit. It’s only about 350km the long way across with a population of almost 12 million. There’s hardly a hectare in it where you aren’t a bike ride from a town center. Even in the dead center of Hodge Kempen you’re still adjacent to small, fairly dense town.

      He just falls for the typical false dichotomy that you’re either in the “countyside” or you’re in a major metropolis. When the reality is, most people live in small towns and small towns are still urban.

      He replied to a guy talking about the states and applied just completely wrong standards of what both what good transit and the countryside are because his own experience doesn’t map to what the other guy was talking about.