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@MLD Any transportation voucher amount where the value is not exclusively used for commuting to and from work would be considered a fringe benefit (or any carryover amount from month to month). So any lunch trips or weekend trips, are technically taxable fringe benefits. The IRS was about to crack down on this a couple of years ago and backed off because of political pressure from B. Mikulski et al.

While that may be fine that we let it slide for tax purposes, for purposes of a discussion of "fairness" WMATA's already getting a heavily subsidized break from the feds.

What we've found is that raising fares pushes people to their cars (and bikes) until gasoline rises. However, there's no reciprocal adjustment in costs.

WMATA is a professional lying organization. They lied about "fail safe" automated trains (were actually fail dead, and were told not to intermix non-intermixable parts). They lie about their on time rates and their repair rates. They're so bad at lying they don't even care anymore when they get caught lying; they simply go on the offense.

by ahk on Mar 22, 2012 4:53 pm • link • report