Alleviating Rural Poverty Act of 2015

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Section one makes zero sense.

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No one supports giving public transportation vouchers to those who do not own vehicles?

I certainly do.

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I strongly support this bill. If the urbanites among us would rather flip their noses up at rural people who often have no other means of transportation besides an automobile (which they likewise seem to want us to stop using as-is) on account of the miniscule cost this would amount to, let me remind them that they (that is, our faux deficit hawks) have voted time and time again for hundreds of millions of dollars in military spending that is, by any measure, totally unnecessary.

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Instead of yet another bill which gives funds to the regions, why can't this be a federally administered program? As long as there was some coordination with the appropriate local authorities, I don't think it would be too much of an issue.

because MUH REGIONAL RITES

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Why subsidize them? Why not just nationalize the transit industry and do it ourselves? There's no point in giving money to a for-profit corporation when the problem is that they don't see a profit in doing what we'll be paying them to do anyway if we can do it ourselves. The fact that no system of rural mass transit exists is evidence enough that private mass transit companies have outlived their usefulness. Nationalize them all and place them under the control of the people who work for them and those who use the services.

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Why subsidize them? Why not just nationalize the transit industry and do it ourselves? There's no point in giving money to a for-profit corporation when the problem is that they don't see a profit in doing what we'll be paying them to do anyway if we can do it ourselves. The fact that no system of rural mass transit exists is evidence enough that private mass transit companies have outlived their usefulness. Nationalize them all and place them under the control of the people who work for them and those who use the services.

Can you be constructive please? This isn't going to happen.

It's more likely than a good bill coming out of this viper's den of moderate heroes.