How Government Help Hurts the Helpee

BART in San Francisco wants to impose a fare increase on all the peasants who actually work for a living and don't have the bucks to drive any more, after no drill politics have sent the price of gas sky high. These increased fares will fall on those hours when people actually go to and come from work.  Like proposed tolls on freeways or driving downtown during rush hour, it will hit the little drones again while the elite who can afford it drive to work in the comfort of their cars.

What is truly obnoxious about this is the way it is presented as something you can avoid by changing your behavior.   This is such a sleazy, smug little lie.  People have to go to work.  They aren't going shopping at 8 or 9 in the morning--they're going to work.  That means they have to go!  They can't alter this behavior and the powers at BART and other government bureaucracies know this.  It is a yet another tax on the working class, and like bailouts of the fabulously wealthy bankers and foreign dictators it is financed by the peasantry (that's you).

This is the way the government works.  Hand out the bennies to you until you depend on them, then when you're vulnerable and over the barrel, they take full advantage, and call it kindness.

Whenever the government offers to help, remember the rule is, "Thanks, but no thanks."  And, insist on lower fuel prices so you can keep the comfort, safety and convenience of your own private automobile.