The old saying of “you get what you pay for” comes to mind here. 

Isn’t this just the impact of removing cross-subsidization? Sure, “unbundling” makes, say, re-booking, cancellation, or whatever other service more expensive for those that use it, but, why should I care? More to the point, why should I pay for people arriving late, needing to cancel, etc.? 

Dude, they are public goods. I paid over $100,000 in taxes last year, an appalling amount of which went to the frickin’ war. If we want to avoid the tragedy of the commons, we all have to shell to for stuff that doesn’t benefit us personally, or to which we object. That’s just how stuff works. I mean, duh.

If your overall use of roads has been higher than the average citizen, then sure it’ll be more expensive. This is because you have to pay for that excess usage yourself rather than having it subsidized by other taxpayers.

The difference is that usage of roads is easily measurable. Measuring how much an individual has benefited from defense spending would be much more difficult.

And you’d still bear the cost of those roads based on your usage, whether you drive on them yourself or not. Services which require the use of roads would likely pass on the costs to you.

Oh really? Single serving individual payment tends to be more expensive than shared costs. Everything from fleet sales to group insurance to buying in bulk shows this.

If you ignore the fact that we’d no longer have to pay for those things through taxes, then sure.

So you would rather have the money for those highways taken out of your paycheck whether you use them or not?

This is exactly what happened in Michigan.

Maybe some of those poor people would be a little less poor if they didn’t have money taken out of every paycheck to pay for roads and transit systems that they may not even use.

Why not? Tolls are the fairest way to charge the actual users of those highways.

Implying that you need a college degree to be smart or successful?

And put you to death for trafficking drugs.

I mean, this is decidedly more upmarket than a Focus...

The Countryman isn’t supposed to be a little car. That’s the Cooper’s job.

Cost of living goes up when minimum wage increases. The inverse is also true. This is basic economics and common sense but you asked about it anyway, so I gave you some resources to improve your own economic understanding.

Suggest you start here: https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understand/dp/0517548232

Careful not to let them roll back too far, we both know you’ve got a lot of room back there.

Basic economics?