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It’s a tariff on DRIVING in Manhattan, the place in America you least need to drive.
You have never tried to leave the city for the suburbs after 9 pm. Driving is still immensely useful, as I sit in my Uber on the way home.
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They better be. No one’s rooting for the smog, but a congestion tax is pretty regressive (hurts poorer people more)
Not in NYC where less than half the population has access to a car.
The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
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The fact that tolls are now directly useful to the entire public must not be underappreciated. This is good news for everyone.
They better be. No one’s rooting for the smog, but a congestion tax is pretty regressive (hurts poorer people more)
In fact, anything that requires a standard of performance will be regressive. We don't have to subordinate all goals to regression avoidance. In fact, no functioning society does that.
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They better be. No one’s rooting for the smog, but a congestion tax is pretty regressive (hurts poorer people more)
Not in NYC where less than half the population has access to a car.
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"There is no such thing as a free lunch" is a very strong argument for tolls, I hope you realize. > everyone paying the tolls who now needs to engage in additional pollution-causing economic activity merely to offset the costs of government-mandated congestion pricing I don't think that's how economics work. People are already doing their best to generate money. Also even if that did happen, the thing you're describi…
If people aren't working harder to offset the tolls then they're strictly poorer as a consequence of the toll.
(And they have the option of not driving, too.)
People panic over the thought of free buses when we have millions of miles of free roads.
What did it do to GDP? (Sincerely asking)
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They better be. No one’s rooting for the smog, but a congestion tax is pretty regressive (hurts poorer people more)
Poor people are forced by circumstance to live in the busiest areas so they will get the biggest health benefits and many do not own cars and often do not even own a car space, so I would beg to differ. You can also offset the regressive nature of this taxation (if any) by putting the revenue into subsidizing public infrastructure like rail and bus.
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Not in NYC where less than half the population has access to a car.
This mostly commuters and tradesmen. You aren’t going to get your tools on the train, snd you are driving into the city from white plains or somewhere similar.