Public Transportation Encouragement Bill [On President's Desk]

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While I'm a bit cautious with handing tax credits to every imaginable group in times of recession where government needs revenue of some sort, I think this is a reasonable piece of legislation. One issue though:

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How do you prove this? Not everybody buys a train or bus pass (though most who regularly use public transit do, obviously), so it's hard to prove how you're eligible for a tax rebate and easy to lie ("Oh, I swear, I take the bus to work" and the kind of bs).

Ontario has a tax credit (I think that's it, might be wrong) on bus and train passes if you keep your old passes to prove it, so I propose this amendment:

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Aha, found it. More information on Canada's system can be found here: http://www.transitpass.ca/

It also works at a 15% rate.

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I like this Act, but I see two problems.

1) How it is possible to control it? I think it gives to many bureaucracy.

2) For people they walk or have no chance without the car go to work this is unfair.

When we want to promote public transporting, then it's easier to cut the tax for the public transportation companies or subsidize the public transporting.

Also, we could also support all people witch go to work, doesn't matter what kind of transport you use, but this very expensive.

Look at my amendment. That's how it currently stands.

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Only one problem remains. It only helps people in the metropolitan areas. Who lives in a rural area did not benefit.

This legislation can't do everything.

Somebody who knows about agricultural and farming policy ought to write something up to provide 'green' incentives for agriculture, something which would be very good. But I can't even bullsh**t about agriculture.

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Motion for a final vote. I don't think there's much more that seems likely to be done.

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Aye