Tax Suburban Driving and Leave Brooklyn and Queens Alone

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:07:03 -0400, Ruben <ruben@www2.mrbrklyn.com>
wrote:

>52% of the grown in the "Region" is in the suburbs. This is a the cause
>for the impending "disaster" of congrestion in the City. TAX SUBURBAN
>DRIVERS. Toll their rodes. Put an increased gas tax on them. Gate them
>out of town.

You mean toll their ***ROADS***? Hint: opinions don't appear nearly as
forceful when full of misspellings.

Secondly, those suburbanites have already paid tolls to cross into the
city; there are no free rides for them like there are for city
residents on the city-owned crossings. Many of them have also already
paid tolls on parkways, the NYS Thruway or other tolled roads to
travel into the city.

Secondly, since they tend to be more affluent than the residents of
Brooklyn and Queens, you need their money and the economic activity
they generate more than you think you do.

Bottom line is congestion pricing would have hit everybody fairly and
everyone affected would have had several ways to avoid paying the fee.
You just want a free ride extended a little bit further.

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:01:28 -0400, Ruben <ruben@www2.mrbrklyn.com>
wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:37:10 -0400, Cyrus Afzali wrote:
>
>> Secondly, those suburbanites have already paid tolls to cross into the
>> city;
>
>No they don't. They just drive from Nassua into Queens on any
>highway....

Oh, for the love of God... There are MANY, MANY other suburban areas
from which vehicles come into the city than Long Island.

Ruben wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:16:32 -0400, Bolwerk wrote:
>
>>> Gee how did that happen? Maybe the regionalists had something to do with
>>> that.
>> The city wasn't exactly handling its finances well in the 1970s.
>
> Gee how did that happen? Where you alive then when ENY and th South
> Bronx was essentially abondoned by the "Regional" thinkers running the
> city in those days?
>
> I guess not.

You mean the "regionalists" who helped create the traffic mess we have
now? The one you get your panties so in a knot about fixing?

The fact is the city's spending was out of control in the 1970s, even in
the face of a declining tax base. The remedies may be severe, but the
city is at least partly to blame. Today, the city actually manages its
budget quite well - better than the state IMHO.

On Apr 28, 4:04 pm, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Hence the numbers coming into Buffalo are a mere fraction
> of what would otherwise be the case. Same for Detroit.

Why would anyone want to go to Buffalo or Detroit, let alone Cannuks
trying to get a break from their country?