One point I do agree with, is that it will be an unfair financial burden upon the working class.
NYC is and has always been a place in which everyone has to hustle to afford the exorbitant often obscene costs of living. The money’s in the city, so one is always having to haul oneself, and one’s things, in to do the work.
Maybe some kind of staggered pricing could work, like the way Scandinavian countries handle traffic and speeding offenses. Which is based on one’s earnings, so working class people aren’t destroyed by one stupid indiscretion. Rich people don’t give a fuck about tickets, so they can flout all laws.
The overall solution would seem to involve, as ever, the perpetual elephant in the room where this city is concerned: taxing the fucking rich!
I think this is making it a bit to simple. Most NYC residents don't own a car and seeing how car ownership increases with more money, it's, as usual, mostly poor working people who don't have one.
But they're still footing the bill for it. Space in NYC is ridicolously expensive, except of course, for cars.
I'll hand you there's people priced out of NYC who are now reliant on a car, but to put forth taht this is an unfair financial burden upon the working class in general is missing some layers here at least. It's also a good thing for many of them.
One point I do agree with, is that it will be an unfair financial burden upon the working class.
NYC is and has always been a place in which everyone has to hustle to afford the exorbitant often obscene costs of living. The money’s in the city, so one is always having to haul oneself, and one’s things, in to do the work.
Maybe some kind of staggered pricing could work, like the way Scandinavian countries handle traffic and speeding offenses. Which is based on one’s earnings, so working class people aren’t destroyed by one stupid indiscretion. Rich people don’t give a fuck about tickets, so they can flout all laws.
The overall solution would seem to involve, as ever, the perpetual elephant in the room where this city is concerned: taxing the fucking rich!
I think this is making it a bit to simple. Most NYC residents don't own a car and seeing how car ownership increases with more money, it's, as usual, mostly poor working people who don't have one.
But they're still footing the bill for it. Space in NYC is ridicolously expensive, except of course, for cars.
I'll hand you there's people priced out of NYC who are now reliant on a car, but to put forth taht this is an unfair financial burden upon the working class in general is missing some layers here at least. It's also a good thing for many of them.