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发表于 2012-8-29 15:06:45
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来自: INNA
3. Someone claim that public transport should be free of charge, others disagree. Discuss and give your opinion.
To citizen, it has been a long history about the discussion to be for or against the charging of public transportation, and there are almost the same amount of supportive evidence that uphold their arguments respectively. (36)
Those people, who hold the support position, probably think it about according to the following reasons. For modern people, the expenditure that is costed on travelling takes up a large proportion of daily pay, especially for the poor. So, if the government can pay it for her people, then people's standard of life will be improved accordingly as they can allocate more income to other aspects of life, such as being trained and being educated. The damage to the environment, coming from car exhaust, also can be greatly reduce, because, among all sorts of vehicles, the private car contribute largely to the pollution. If the authorities take no charge for transporting service, then there will be more traveller taking these offering rather using their own cars, which will greatly relieve the pollution caused by the vehicles. (136)
Other residents, however, have an opposite attitude. They claims that if no charge will be carried out, then it will bring about some disadvantages. One of them is that, for governments, the cost of maintaining this service is a heavy burden, which cannot be born giving the consideration of taking others public services, such as paying for civil servants. The side effect of cancelling that charge, also, will lead to a domino effect, which will result in others appealing, such as calling removing the payment for hospital service. Finally, an undermining result will appear - that is, the more people taking buses and trains, the less automobile will be sold, then the smaller the related industries will be, as a result, the less job opportunities will be created. (128)
In conclusion, I advocate that free charge for public transporting should not be encouraged, because it contribute more drawbacks to the societies and the residents. (25)
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