text: Richard Johnson 693, You dropped the weekly rail tax from $4.80 to $2.83, ostensibly for affordability reasons.  But for a family of 4 with both parents working, the weekly rail tax would be $5.66.  Over 15 years, that would amount to more than $4,000.  Explain how that family of 4 is supposed to live comfortably and pay the rail tax when they earn less than $60,000 annually.  Then explain how seniors on fixed incomes who cut the pills they are taking in half because they can't afford to pay the full cost of their prescription drugs -- explain how they are supposed to come up with the rail tax.  Then explain how poor families are supposed to come up with the rail tax when they can't even come up with lunch money for their kids who go to school.  It might be easy for you to pay the tax, but it's not easy for everyone.