@zombieslicker@MrAlfonso2323@LeahAgainAgain And before you say "that's not the same thing" it is! Think about it, not everyone will need or use the service I provide but everyone will pay me for it through their tax! It's the exact same thing, so give me my free public funds please!
@zombieslicker@MrAlfonso2323@LeahAgainAgain If you're so ok with private companies being paid with public funds. Pay me! Every worker in the UK only needs to pay me 20p a year and I'll build a newsletter that explains AI and it's uses. Not everyone will need that of course, but some might. It's the same thing!
Imagine a bus trip being £3.25 currently. That means £1.25 of tax payers money will go straight to the shareholders of PRIVATE COMPANIES! If I were the boss of these companies I'd be adding 50p to every trip because the difference is now guaranteed!
Everyone going mad because they believe people don't want a £2 fare cap. That's not what we're saying. We don't want our tax to pay the difference between £2 and the bus companies full fare. Because that's what's happening.
@zombieslicker@MrAlfonso2323@LeahAgainAgain If bus travel is currently too expensive then people need to vote with their feet, not take the buses to work and let the private companies collapse and re-nationalise public transport. Then it's worth using tax payers money for it
@zombieslicker@MrAlfonso2323@LeahAgainAgain Such a short sighted view. Our money is being used to subsidise the difference between £2 and the full fare for PRIVATE COMPANIES! I'd rather my tax go towards public needs, not in the pockets of shareholders of bus companies.
@Futuresain@MrAlfonso2323@LeahAgainAgain The issue is not funding public services, the issue is using tax payers money to subsidise private companies, because they will still want the full fare, the difference is made up by tax payers. If public transport is such an issue it should be nationalised!
@exception379@SimonHarrisMBD Well those people should pay for it then. What about those who don't use buses? Why is my tax being used to subsidise other people's bus journeys and also profiting the share holders of the private companies whose job it is to run them. It's an appealing waste of tax payer money!
@thirdmanuk@tomturner123@hangsawoman Well there you have it. Proof if proof were needed. Every bus in the UK is electric. I mean I know that's a London bus and of course once London gets a new bus they're rolled out across the country. I take it all back, ThirdManCuck has won this battle!
@Footnuggets228@hangsawoman Right, so you're ok with paying the shareholders of PRIVATE COMPANIES from those public funds you mentioned? So it's OK that companies can profit from our taxes when, as you've mentioned, they should be going to public use like potholes?
You absolute bellend. What a wet wipe!
@JospehSparrow@Burbo25@ThreadNMC@JamesAlexKirby When 40p of every pound I make goes to the government I think I have more right to say what that money should go to. And I don't think it should go to subsidise poors and into the pockets of the PRIVATE COMPANIES SHAREHOLDERS!
@mrkrishp@harryphelps_ Because that was promised to them. No one promised me subsidised travel otherwise I wouldn't have bought a Tesla and £20K worth of solar panels. I could've just acted all poor and hopped on a bus with the rest of the scum
@harryphelps_ Yes, until we privatised them. Then the responsibility of running public services were handed over to private companies and in return they kept all of the money. Now they get my money regardless of whether I use the service or not.
@Ian38711310@PaulMcc66111360@tomturner123@hangsawoman So you think the taxpayer subsidising privately owned businesses (therefore directly paying their shareholders with our taxes) is the same as paying for a nationalised service that everyone can use at point of use? You're brain dead!
@_LucasMichael_ Perfectly reasonable to be opposed to subsidising privately owned transport. If this were a nationalised service it makes sense, but we're essentially paying bus companies shareholders direct! That's wrong!