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Well, there's another one who can't run his businesses for him.

 

I suspect this is a very strong case of assuming everyone's life is similar to yours

 

From Wikipedia:

A 2014 study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute found that in 2012 9.22% of US households were car-free. This was an increase from 8.87% in 2005. The city with the most car-free households was New York City at 56%, and the lowest was San José, California at 5.8%.[1] The following is a list of US cities with the most car-free households in 2012:[2]

Rank City % car-free
1 New York City 56%
2 Washington, DC 38%
3 Boston 37%
4 Philadelphia 33%
5 San Francisco 31%
6 Baltimore 31%
7 Chicago 28%
8 Detroit 26%

 

Maybe. I've pretty much lived a white boy middle class life, and I've had a car almost all the time since I turned sixteen. Still, if you talk in terms of nationwide percentages, the number of people who are able to function without one has to be in single digits, at best. In Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, yeah, maybe. In Atlanta or Houston, maaaybe, to a limited degree. In most of the country, if you don't have a car you're SOL.

 

Which again brings us back to the point: health insurance is good. The ways this precedent can be applied may not be and we will probably regret it

 

I didn't mean to afflict the debate with my personal experiences. Carry on.

 

The payoff for America's Cuckold.

 

Not disagreeing with your overall point, but this is a bit of a misnomer.

A huge majority of the people who work in DC live in Maryland and Virginia. The District itself accounts for maybe 1/10th of the population of the area. As soon as you get 10 miles outside the city in any direction, using public transportation becomes that much more of a clusterfuck, if it's even there at all.

I could do without a car. I could walk two miles to the closest Metro stop. I could go into DC, switch trains and go back out, which would likely take two hours, each way. I could walk the remaining two and a half miles to my office. I could do all of that in reverse 10 hours later.

But, fuck that.

In the DC suburbs, at least, any money saved by not owning a car and taking a stand for freedom from government insurance requirements will likely be spent on jacked up rents you'll have to pay to live anywhere near a Metro stop.

 

In Houston you wouldn't need a car if you had a pickup. Otherwise ....

 

Guess that makes 44 percent of the population rich or crazy.

 

Not to mention that Metro, which is generally a clusterfuck to begin with, is a clusterfuck of epic proportions right now.