Victims of unfair business practices can seek redress for
damages in the courts under a variety of remedies, but what about
victims of unfair government practices?
Dear Editor:
Victims of unfair business practices can seek redress for damages in the courts under a variety of remedies, but what about victims of unfair government practices?
COG’s prices for County Transit rides are at only a small fraction of COG’s total costs, driving private-sector carriers out of business, out of the market. COG maintains a monopoly operation, calling it a “transit success,” while concealing the truth about the total costs. The Legislature condones this, and Congress encourages the waste with each six-year transport funding bill like the one that expires on Friday. Why do we tolerate a double standard for unfair business practices – one for business and one for government?
The ramifications of this double standard can be seen all around us. We have money to waste moving empty bus and train seats, but insufficient funds to make highway safety improvements. We beg Congress for more pork, while we waste most of our tax dollars that are funneled back to us (11 cents per dollar from Sacramento; less from Washington).
When will we ever have elected representatives with the wisdom and courage to overturn our flawed transport policy?
Caveat viator.
Joseph P. Thompson,
Tres Pinos
