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How much could they possibly pay people to use public transit that would have anywhere near the same effect magnitude?

> The US has a huge inefficiency issue, tax money is not used effectively, and a good fraction goes into carefully designed money laundering scams. More tax money here is like eating more to avoid stress

Citation needed



>How much could they possibly

How much more could they possibly tax people before fixing root causes instead of symptoms?

>Citation needed

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/wb_government_effe...


The US is near the top of that list ahead of (for example) the UK and France.

Also, this is an arbitrary all-in-one measurement of "government effectiveness", not something that in any way states "Many US government schemes are in fact elaborate money laundering".




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