If you make a tax-deductible donation to your local transit authority (check your state if it's deductible) then the government is basically paying more for mass transportation than they had budgeted. Our taxes are one of our most powerful tools in the US for deciding what gets funded and nobody uses that tool. Likely because it's hard enough to stay fed than donate sums of cash to already-functioning institutions, but imagine if enough people just did this a little.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's great advice for an american, but do you have any for australians like me?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Graduate highschool.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Hold onto something tightly so you don't fall off the bottom of the globe!