As a reply to someone blessing you or after someone sneezes ? <| sep |> Trump WILL make sure , if recounts happen , that they are done correctly and without recount fraud . <| sep |> Try to pick a fight , then proceed to lose it horribly . <| sep |> You ' re ignoring positive externalities associated with public transportation . There are no positive externalities associated with public transportation . The full benefit of public transportation isn ' t captured in the form of monetary profit society benefits by reducing congestion , improving social mobility , etc . Congestion is a negative externality of road traffic , not a positive externality of public transit . You tax negative externalities and subsidize positive externalities . If you want to think of public transit as a positive externality , then everything that keeps anyone of the roads is a positive externality , and you need to subsidize every single person for each second he is not on the road , and not use the indirect and inefficient method of subsidizing public transit . Obviously , that is absurd , and it ' s much easier to just raise tolls on the roads . What the fuck social mobility ? So the government doesn ' t make a profit off of running a public transportation system but the net benefit is greater than the money it collects from running the service . So , it needs to lose money on one business , so that it can increase the quality of another business it is losing money on ? Why not just raise prices for both ? By your method , people who use neither are paying for both and getting nothing from it . Reduced congestion time and the ability to enable lower income people move around the city and get access to a larger pool of jobs means they can collect on productivity gains from reduced congestion and improved social mobility . Poor people are not prevented from getting to work unless their earning potential is incredibly low that it is less than the cost of public transit . Since that would be such an extremely low amount , you can be sure that almost no one earns that little , we know that public transit subsidies have no effect on the poor ' s ability to get to work . However , even if someone was somehow earning that little , then it would be better to pay that person to stay home .