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That depends on how wealthy you need to be to not care. If only billionaires can ignore the costs, then there will be plenty of demand for transit (or more likely to get rid of the fees...). While if the fee is so low most people choose to just pay it, then it won't make a difference.

Of course the people who most need to ignore it are those like plumbers who have a job that can't be done via transit.

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Weirdly thus seems to hit just above the average skilled union worker pay in San Francisco. This means that A Lot of the workers will, basically, just be taxed to work as there's no reasonable way for them to take public transportation into the job (though they often car pool).

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Union-Worker-Salary-in...

For plumbers and the like, it's another cost of business and will be passed on to customers. They'll adapt, and no one will go out of business because everyone has to pay the tax.

Except the ones that do go out of business and aren't talked about.

If every business's costs go up by the same amount, and they're all passing the costs on to customers, why are any of them going out of business?

Are some businesses able to plan better and reduce the amount they pay in tolls? Do some choose not to pass costs on? Definitely. But you can say that about any cost of doing business - labor, materials, licensing, insurance.

Because not all business costs go up by the same relative amount and not all of them are able to easily pass the costs onto customers.

I think I addressed both of those points already.

No, you didn't.

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