Are you kidding me?
President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to New York City’s congestion pricing system, which thins traffic and funds mass transit by imposing high tolls on drivers entering some parts of Manhattan.
Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most passenger cars entering Manhattan neighborhoods south of Central Park. In its early days, transit officials say the toll has brought modest but measurable traffic reductions.
How is it that he has this power?
MTA says he doesn’t have that power, and the toll program will continue unless ordered to stop by a court.
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/d0d7398bc4e60a2f/7ae68b5d-full.pdf
You haven’t heard? He’s the new king now, he can do whatever.
The new selfproclaimed king, like all kings
States rights.
Sure man.
How can he legally interject into what is clearly a local government matter?
Funny how they run on this mythic yesteryear of the fifties… yet neglect the notion that the fifties were funded by the highest wealth taxes, street cars were everywhere, and there were MASSIVE public works projects EVERYWHERE.
It’s a bummer that New York City has to fund welfare for states that hate them so much, like Kentucky, Mississippi, and Alabama. If that weren’t the case it would be much easier to fund transit improvements.
Those states would be worse off if states like NY or CA decided to secede one day, though I’m aware that’s nearly impossible to do. What’s crazy to me is that the states that contribute most are the ones most shitted on for being “too liberal.”
If NY were run by MAGA, I bet the economy would tank and it wouldn’t be able to contribute anything to the states that are already poor.
