NYC may add $3.00 surcharge to items ordered on line to find MTA

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Not really sure what the connection is between the two so I’m just going for a money grab. Yeah a money grab but why does that surprise us in NYS. Glad it’s only NYC.
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New Yorkers May Have to Pay Package Delivery Surcharge to Help Fund MTA

With the Metropolitan Transportation Authority facing a budget crisis, New Yorkers may have to dig into their pockets to help out. Under a new proposed bill, New York City residents would be required to pay a $3 surcharge on packages they ordered online, with the exception for medicine and food...
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Phazer said:
Another "great" reason to live in NYC!

No shows. No restaurants. No museums. No reasonable shipping.
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Hearing it will include all of Long Island and Lower Hudson Valley too since they already pay an MTA sales tax surcharge and are considered to be in the MTA region even though there is no MTA service in rural counties..
 
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Typical Socialist totalitarian pabulum. If a business is failing, the government needs to help. NO! WRONG! Businesses succeed and fail in accordance with market forces. If the MTA needs more riders, then NYC should stop chasing people out of the city, stop closing city attractions, and do more to encourage ridership for the "business." Otherwise...end the MTA and all of its "services."
 
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It cannot be blatant stupidity emanating Gracie Mansion, and the executive Mansion turning this once great state into a pig sty. We know that D'blazo is a communist fuck, by his own words if not his lifetime actions, Camo(?), it may just be what it appears A boy so conflicted by internal issues that all that is left is, stupid.
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Phazer said:
Typical Socialist totalitarian pabulum. If a business is failing, the government needs to help. NO! WRONG! Businesses succeed and fail in accordance with market forces. If the MTA needs more riders, then NYC should stop chasing people out of the city, stop closing city attractions, and do more to encourage ridership for the "business." Otherwise...end the MTA and all of its "services."
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If they think its bad now, just wait until MTA fuel costs sky rocket after their current source disappears when FUAC's Indian Point closure hits home. No more a couple pennies a kilowatt for power and replacement market summer rates can exceed 10 times what they had been paying. Tick Tock.

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Phazer said:
Another "great" reason to live in NYC!

No shows. No restaurants. No museums. No reasonable shipping.
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But where else can you get mugged reliably ?

What a Tourist Destination ! :ROFL:

I hold no animosity towards the Empire State Building, but it would tickle me to see the Observation Deck close due to lack of Visitors.

Pretty soon they'll have to PAY the Indians to take Manhattan BACK.
 
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Ocasio-Cortez and Top Aide Should Be Investigated for Possible Campaign Finance Violations

An investigation is needed to determine if socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the media magnet on the far-left fringe of the Democratic Party, has broken federal campaign finance laws. If convicted of criminal conduct, she could get up to five years in prison for each violation.
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No consequence for her alleged criminal activity either.
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Phazer said:
Typical Socialist totalitarian pabulum. If a business is failing, the government needs to help. NO! WRONG! Businesses succeed and fail in accordance with market forces. If the MTA needs more riders, then NYC should stop chasing people out of the city, stop closing city attractions, and do more to encourage ridership for the "business." Otherwise...end the MTA and all of its "services."
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I highly doubt the $3 surcharge will change anything. I’d pay $3 to not hassle going anywhere on nyc. Won’t work or give MTA anymore riders and they know this. They just want a billion dollars pretty simple to figure out.
 
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This is not even close to the beginning. Most of the extra fees and fines and surcharges, most people don't even see them. If they do see them; they ignore them and pay the bill.

In the Buffalo region, parking tickets not only went up in fine, but there is an added fee. These extra fees are a little way to offset the lack of revenues.

BTW, fuck the MTA. Charge the customers, the riders of this form of transportation more to use the service. Seems pretty simple.
 
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This is not even close to the beginning. Most of the extra fees and fines and surcharges, most people don't even see them. If they do see them; they ignore them and pay the bill.

In the Buffalo region, parking tickets not only went up in fine, but there is an added fee. These extra fees are a little way to offset the lack of revenues.

BTW, fuck the MTA. Charge the customers, the riders of this form of transportation more to use the service. Seems pretty simple.
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Yes it’s that simple that’s why they have decided to go another way.
 
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1) There was no consequence to her for her folly, only a media speed bump
2) you give her too much credit. Mouth of a jackass, stubborn as a jackass, and stupid as a jackass.
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I give her no credit.

Perhaps I do give her voters too much, however.
 
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NYC may add $3.00 surcharge to items ordered on line to find MTA
omg FUAC lost it .. what a savings this could be ... do not find it ...
 
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Taxes unrelated to the use/causation...

I guess we better start getting ready to pay a tax for the melting of the polar ice caps too! How about the carbon in China... Carbon we expel while breathing!

It's the beginning... They're going to get real creative as discussed in other threads to help fund the failure of their ability to control expenditure and costs of the government they've been entrusted to by their constituents! Their simple answer is just get more $$$, not look at why the MTA is completely top heavy and ridiculously cost intensive to do anything primarily due to the bureaucratic complexity of the many levels of the agency. Ordering simple office supplies takes a dozen levels of approval, all designed to do what it actually fails at, ie, controlling costs. Each level justifying its own existence and preservation!

So yeah, just tax more... That works...

So yeah, ignore the MTA should be gutted!

So yeah, ignore why they can't do anything cost effective, and make up for the waste by just getting more $... to waste!

Mentally deficient!!! But this is what they're going to do, it's going to get worse... Oh boy, wait till all the Billions upon Billions, they can't even figure out how to distribute - needs to be paid for... Wait!
 
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This is not even close to the beginning. Most of the extra fees and fines and surcharges, most people don't even see them. If they do see them; they ignore them and pay the bill.
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New York State has a number of taxes and fees added to services and merchandise and the State made it illegal for a manufacturer, utility, or service provider to divulge that tax or fee on the bill.

The State and Goverment are also famous for taxing each step of a production chain. On many products the cumulative impact of multiple income taxes, property taxes, fuel taxes and fees, utility taxes and fees, vehicle fees, registration fees, employment taxes, licensing fees, etc for each step in the production and retail chain may ultimately account for as much as one-half the purchase price.
 
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I expect a "temporary surcharge" on NYS income tax in 2021; and like most "temporary" taxes it will not end.
 
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We are still paying the "temporary" gasoline surcharge instituted post 9-11 in NY State to pay for security upgrades. The tax has surpassed it's sunset clause multiple times and schmuck Schumer last time noted that we are all "USED" to just paying it, and seeing that they could put it to good use, there really was no need to relax it... It's not paid for the original purpose in a decade... And it's still taxed and collected by the State!

This is just an example...

Anyone have some TEA? Lol
 
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