Posted on 12/08/2020 7:28:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
New York City residents may be looking at paying a $3 surcharge for online package deliveries to aid the failing Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
In an op-ed for the Daily News, John Samuelsen International President for the Transport Workers Union and Brooklyn Assemblyman Robert Carroll said the MTA’s budget crisis could be resolved with a new measure – a fee that would reportedly raise more than $1 billion a year.
“We do not have to accept as inevitable the laying off of thousands of transit workers who have already endured and sacrificed so much keeping NYC moving, and functioning, during this deadly pandemic,” they wrote in the op-ed.
“We choose to fight, and we ask you to join us.”
The charge would not be applied to orders containing food or medicine, but argue that the surcharge would also incentivize people to shop from local shops, rather than the large retailers, like Amazon and Walmart.
The pair argue that the MTA desperately needs a federal bailout from Washington to aid the already struggling transportation system that has been “decimated” by the effects of the coronavirus.
They are looking to the government to help them recover from what they have estimated will be a $16 billion deficit by the year 2024, but they have also said they will need help on the state level as well.
Though they are asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to step in and make changes, including the $3 surcharge on packing, the charge would only apply to New York City – a change that Carroll Samuelsen says will benefit the environment as well.
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Sign me up for some of that action.
Hard to feel sorry for any of them....this is what happens when you vote communist in!!!
If they raised the charge to $6, it could raise $2b.
I have an idea for a movie where people have had enough and flee high taxes and Democrat insanity. I call it “Escape from New York”. And I want to get a big name actor for this. maybe Kurt Russell or someone like that.
“I see you have some money there. Give it to me.”
If the ‘tax’ works and people go out to shop (even though ‘forced’ to stay home) and Transit workers get back to normal, will the city apply a 3 dollar surcharge per passenger to subside the laid off delivery drivers?
Of course the ‘work from home’ advocates etal have nothing to do with the transit situation.
Also, as the companies figure ALL can work from home what do ‘they’ do with all the ‘abandoned’ real estate and the people managing it???
Maybe ‘AMAZON’ will move to NYC.....
With this kind of thinking, buggy whip salesman would be a wholly subsided industry, backed by the govt...
HA HA
“a change that Carroll Samuelsen says will benefit the environment as well”
I love it. We need to take advantage of this nonsense in pushing our priorities. “National CCW reciprocity would benefit the environment.” Don’t question it, bigot.
Government unions **** up every single thing they touch.
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Many call it "Colorado", "Georgia", "Arizona", "Austin, TX", ...
Doesn't matter. DumblASSio and his thief wife would make sure that the 2B raised would be distributed under the table to their favorite gay and commie causes.
Do you get your money back when the package is stolen?
hello Amazon, I would like to order a big screen TV, a laptop computer and a small bag of potato chips.
“We choose to fight (reality), and we ask you to join us.”
They voted for it. Embrace the suck!
Yea, go for it MTA, the people who remain there are getting what they voted for so they're ok with it.
gasp
we can’t lay off government!
many of the people they would tax per delivery are now unemployed
thanks to them
oh and meanwhile add more taxes onto ev owners
you know after encouraging them to cut their emissions
Give it 6 months. It begins at $3 but in a year or two it will be $12 or more. It will resemble the toll road scams.
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