Posted on 12/08/2020 7:28:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Thankfully I don’t live in NYC or NY for that matter. But if I did, I’d lobby very hard for the $3 charge to be a fixed charge for at least the next 10 years.
How do you enforce this? Retailers that aren’t based in NYC have no incentive to spend time and $$ finding out if the people they’re mailing to are in the city, and then collecting the surcharge for that city. Big retailers will either charge everyone, ignore it, or save money by holding for pickup instead of delivering. And now people have to go out and, gasp, catch a cold!
And what if I buy a gift for someone and send it to them? I’m in TX, I’m not paying the surcharge. The company’s in who knows where, they don’t care. Only the guy receiving it is in NYC, so is the city gonna force UPS/FedEx/USPS/etc to require in-person delivery, and collect $3 from the person receiving all packages? Wait, there’s more personal contact the demigod Fauci says is bad!
How do they define ‘package’? ANYthing mailed? In a box but not an envelope? What about the paper/bubble wrap envelopes? Those can get decently big. Only over a certain weight? What if I order 20 things, do I pay the charge per order, per item, or per package, depending on how many ship together?
Ny City...sucking every cent out of the peoples pockets.
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Brilliant Move NY- force everyone to stay home, lose their jobs, THEN TAX the crap out of them while they are broke and need supplies from online stores because they can’t go out
Almost certainly, the average person will be hit with a further tax to reimburse the ‘underprivileged’ who are disproportionately affected by the the first tax. Because...fairness.
Why limit it to just $6, I’d go full-measure....$12 a package and bring in $4-billion. There should also be a toilet-paper tax ($1-per roll), and a tax on hamburgers ($1).
$5-$10 per package is a small price to pay for NYC residents that never use public transportation to be forced to be pay.
You elect these liberal POS so suck it up.
Maybe if they removed the bike lanes and stopped pushing bike riding, there would be more people using the system. Covid has nothing to do with their loss of revenue as they kept the subway system open.
How is MTA going to collect the $3/package? Will they now be tracking what we buy? Here come the package police.
How are people to shop locally if the shops are closed? How are they to shop if they are forced to stay home?
Good point, but even more important is that if they raised it to only $300,000.00, it will pay for their Green New Deal!
In light of current events, how do we know that, hmmmm?
Note to NYC residents: You should take the city and the state to court over this election. While you still have a city left.
The law of unintended consequences. When prices rise demand drops and people return to brick and mortar stores and tax revenues falls. Will the state then station revenue agents on the loading docks of stores, count the packages coming of the trucks and tax them 3 dollars each?
I say make it $100 per delivery, it will certainly help more /s
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