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This is one political issue where we're comrades. I hate these pricing scheme with a passion. I dislike all schemes that assume that commuting is some whimsical lifestyle choice. Wages in the Western World are stagnant, housing in cities is absurdly expensive so people live where housing is relatively cheap, the suburbs or neighborhoods in the city that are far from the central business districts and they drive to where the relatively decent paying jobs are located, in neighborhoods that those workers cannot afford to live in.
Governments should build better mass transit and address the causes of unaffordable housing. Punishing moderate and low income workers for driving to work is a sick joke.