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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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
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.
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.
$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?