There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere.
It'll cost $9 each time. They're raising money for the mass transit system by charging specifically those people who don't use the mass transit system and that feels really unfair to me.
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I believe OP is talking about NYC's Congestion Pricing.
Yeah, I live inside the congestion pricing zone.
And you have a car?? In Manhattan??? Are you made of money?
Right?! I know several people in Manhattan (who are pretty well off tbh), and even they don't own a car. Why would you in Manhattan?!? How privileged does this person have to be? People are unable to afford groceries right now and they're complaining that they might have to pay a few bucks because they don't want to take a train
Those people who can't afford groceries shouldn't be complaining either. After all, they're not literally starving and there are starving children in Africa...
"Starving children in Africa"
That is a such a classic argument, too bad it is completely idiotic.
A starving child in Africa would not be helped by sending our food scraps to them, the food would spoil and harm them instead. If the food did make it to Africa without spoiling, it would rightfully be rejected, as an insult to the government and people of these nations.
But let's say that the food didn't spoil and was accepted, it would ruin the local economy. The food would be cheaper than the locally available food, driving farmers out of business, increasing the dependency on food scraps.
Never make that argument in this context, it just shows how dumb you are.
So you can really see how privileged you are then
No, just made of privilege
I did notice this news article that mentions:
New Yorkers who live within the Congestion Relief Zone will not be charged to drive or park around the area. They will only be charged once they leave and cross back into the zone.
I'm not familiar with NYC, but isn't this exactly the opposite of their goals? If you are staying within the congestion zone, you should be taking a different form of transportation. It's only when leaving that area that you have a (potentially) valid reason to take your own car.
Most congestion pricing schemes rely only on tolling the boundary and generally target central business districts with little internal traffic. The technology is there to install more internal tracking of traffic, but you'd probably push up against privacy groups and the deployment of the tech would be a lot more expensive.
This is kind of where my thinking was at. Although I don’t know how you’d implement taxing that.
Tax it as part of registering your vehicle to an address within the congestion zone.