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Money is fungible, so all sorts of new taxes could work. But Move NY actually might be able to pass, as it is intelligently designed to actually subsidize outer
by dankohn1 11y ago
Money is fungible, so all sorts of new taxes could work. But Move NY actually might be able to pass, as it is intelligently designed to actually subsidize outer borough bridge users who were most penalized by past congestion tax proposals. It also represents a Pigovian tax on congestion.
- bradleyjg 11y agoIt might well reduce the cost for the occasional driver who wants to leave the city or those few that commute from one outer boro to another, but the people that most opposed the former proposal were those that commuted from Queens or Brooklyn to Manhattan. This proposal looks to lead to the same unhappiness from that group -- indeed any realistic proposal would, since a basic goal is to get them to stop doing that.