Congestion Tax in Major Cities

[ChrisKnight06]

Thoughts? If you don't start doing stuff like this what are these cities going to look like 20+ years from now?

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Several major cities are now considering a so-called “congestion” tax, on the heels of New York approving the controversial first-in-the-nation fee on downtown drivers in a bid to ease gridlock.

New York state lawmakers earlier this month approved a congestion surcharge for drivers at all Manhattan points of entry below 60th Street, the culmination of a decade-long fight that began in 2007 when former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg began pushing the plan. Now supporters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle and Portland are considering following New York’s lead, in an effort to cut down on traffic and pollution and raise money for public transportation.



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/co...am-in-big-cities-after-new-york-approves-plan

 

[NinjaKnight]

Taxes are a proven detriment, I'm usually anti tax as it is an infringement on the taxee's rights, but breathing in known carcinogenic substances from excess ICE engines is more of an infringement on my rights, so I'd say go for it.

 

[UCFhonors]

Fix pie fallacy. I prefer creative solutions.

 

[NinjaKnight]

Fix pie fallacy. I prefer creative solutions.

I do agree, taxes are a lazy solution, but they work. In this case if I were a resident dealing with this excess polution I'd probably be for it, but would prefer other solutions.

 

[ChrisKnight06]

What are some other solutions?

 

[KnighttimeJoe]

Let cities like that do it. How in the blue hell would that work in a city like Orlando?

 

[UCFhonors]

What are some other solutions?

People become Billionaires figuring out solutions. Like Cornelius Vanderbilt who broke all kinds of stupid NYC laws to provide way better and cheaper solutions.

The Free Market always provides solutions. Just give it a chance and time. Something NYC has had a long history of not doing.

 

[sk8knight]

Let cities like that do it. How in the blue hell would that work in a city like Orlando?

Make all the thoroughfares in the Orlando area toll roads. Oh wait...

 

[ChrisKnight06]

I always figured these huge cities were open to all sorts of ideas.

 

[UCFhonors]

I always figured these huge cities were open to all sorts of ideas.

Do you mean like banning ride sharing or before that banning personal vans or limiting the # of taxis or making privately built subway a city own entity? Or before all that giving monopolies to a ferries?

Yeah, NYC has a long history of corruption.

 

[UCFKnight85]

London bans cars from entering at a certain point unless you have a paid permit to enter the inner downtown areas. Is this what NYC is proposing?

 

[UCFWayne]

we already ahve a million different types of tax. why not add another? lol