New Yorkers may have to pay $3 surcharge for package deliveries under new bill to aid the failing Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)

Fox News ^ | 12/08/2020 | Caitlin McFall

[crusty old prospector]

Sign me up for some of that action.

[ontap]

Hard to feel sorry for any of them....this is what happens when you vote communist in!!!

[Zhang Fei]

If they raised the charge to $6, it could raise $2b.

[BipolarBob]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“I see you have some money there. Give it to me.”

[xrmusn]

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

[Paladin2]

"Metropolitan COVID Transportation Authority (MCTA)"

[MountainWalker]

“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.

[Lurker]

Government unions **** up every single thing they touch.

L

[CatOwner]

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".

Many call it "Colorado", "Georgia", "Arizona", "Austin, TX", ...

[EinNYC]

If they raised the charge to $6, it could raise $2b.

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.

[The Antiyuppie]

Do you get your money back when the package is stolen?

[KarlInOhio]

The charge would not be applied to orders containing food or medicine,

hello Amazon, I would like to order a big screen TV, a laptop computer and a small bag of potato chips.

[mrsmith]

“We choose to fight (reality), and we ask you to join us.”

[dfwgator]

They voted for it. Embrace the suck!

[capydick]

Years of malfeasance in good times and bad, gold plated benefits and pensions and employees putting in for 10 hours a day of overtime for a straight year and they want the average New Yorker to pay for it via package delivery from a company they ran out of town.

Yea, go for it MTA, the people who remain there are getting what they voted for so they're ok with it.

[Secret Agent Man]

gasp

we can’t lay off government!

many of the people they would tax per delivery are now unemployed

thanks to them

[Secret Agent Man]

oh and meanwhile add more taxes onto ev owners

you know after encouraging them to cut their emissions

[Obadiah]

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.