How did these victors justify forcing others to pay for them to ride?

The student ticket has always been a just Latin American cause worth fighting for. In Argentina it also works. Many do not understand it because they do not know what it is to have quality public education as well as that the best universities are the public ones. It is not welfare, it is having an educated and professional people. Now that I am a professional I gladly pay my ticket so that others can educate themselves as well. Congratulations.

Yes. I realize most people who see in a bad way tax payer money going to this kind of things is because they usually live in a country where the tax only goes to war or anything that is definetelly not for the citizens. So they have an overall anger about tax in general. And yes, here in Brazil our public(and free) universities are the best.

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