Thread: The state benefits system mega-thread.
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Old 22-08-2019, 10:39   #2315
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Re: The state benefits system mega-thread.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
The high level of fares is explained by the fact that the government decided that rail users should pay more than the non-rail using taxpayer to fund the modernisation of the railways after many decades of neglect.

As an economist, you should be explaining that to us, not the other way around!
Exactly, the consumer still pays and more where competition isn't genuinely created. Giving us some of the highest fares per mile in Europe.
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