Why not do it the other way? Pay people to take public transport-i.e. make it free and even incentivize it by adding on other perks.
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.
> 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 more could they possibly tax people before fixing root causes instead of symptoms?
>Citation needed
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/wb_government_effe...
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".