I think gp point was that making it mandatory (or tax) would increase the budget of Deutsche Bahn.
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Maybe, but I've never seen anyone with such a proposal serious about giving enough money to run great transit everywhere.
By everywhere I include farms in the middle of nowhere as that farmer has a relative somewhere who wants to visit and the lack of great transit pushes that person to a car and then opposing transit subsidies. By getting some money from riders there is at least some inventive to make good compromises.