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Officials in Washington, D.C., have indicated that prices need to be raised for Metro. However, because over 60% of riders don't actually pay, officials are now mulling a solution that punishes those who do pay.

Why does it seem as if every time the left is in charge, law-abiding systems pay the price? Because in the pursuit of making public transit great, the left really knows how to ruin it. Why do you think that is?

According to Axios:

You might've heard Metro already was considering an 11% fare hike, starting next July. Metro general manager Randy Clarke now says it could take an even bigger increase to keep up.

Also on the table are "service cuts that could be pretty significant," Clarke told ABC7, or asking DMV governments to approve more funding — another politically difficult ask. "Cutting trains from like eight minutes to 10 minutes doesn't really save much money at all, so you've got to cut and unfortunately impact people's lives to save the costs needed to balance the budget."

Metro officials said 64% of Metro bus riders are still not paying their fare.

The article also blames energy costs and other nonsense, but that is unbelievable, considering close to 70% don't pay. Here is a thought: How about ensuring that riders don't steal? Did officials ever think about that? Considering we are talking about Washington, D.C., it is doubtful that combating theft will ever make the priority list among officials. But what else is new?

Is there anything the left doesn't ruin? It is not complicated. We can function like a reasonable society. But officials refuse to uphold the law, which is their most basic job priority, while everyone else pays the price. You cannot make this level of insanity up.

Americans deserve better than whatever incompetence this is. What a disgrace.

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