The scheme has faced resistance, including from President-elect Donald Trump.
  • Soup@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 days ago

    A judge denied an eleventh-hour effort Friday by neighbouring New Jersey state officials to block the scheme on grounds of its environmental impact on adjoining areas.

    I’d sure love to see what the hell they think is gunna happen there.

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
      19·
      2 days ago

      Driving into NYC from NJ sucks already. I try to never do it. Also the toll is already like $15 so what is a few more dollars? I don’t know why anyone would want to drive in NYC.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        31·
        13 hours ago

        I don’t know why anyone would want to drive in NYC.

        There was already a congestion charge, you just pay for it with your time. Now people who have the money get it easier to drive around.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    But its most high-profile opposition has come from Trump, a native New Yorker who has vowed to kill the scheme when he returns to office this month

    lol so hochol finally unpaused the bill after she knew it would immediately be killed

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    1322·
    2 days ago

    I hope they thought to put in exceptions for at least disabled people and stuff. Otherwise this is just another case of “poor people tax” where rich people dont care and poor people are completely fucked because of it. Probably should be wealth/wage adjusted to make any sense. I wanna see billionaires paying 10k+ everytime they wanna drive through there.

    • n2burns@lemmy.ca
      312·
      2 days ago

      Of course there’s a disability exception. And the idea that it’s a tax on the poor is just asinine. Who the $@#% drives into Manhattan?

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
        15·
        2 days ago

        Rich assholes who want to experience the city while live in a suburban homes. They want the best of both worlds and they want the taxpayers to subsidize their lifestyle.

    • Elise@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 days ago

      Well that’s the point of capitalism isn’t it? That scarce resources are provided to those who have a higher market relevance.

      • Halasham@dormi.zone
        4·
        2 days ago

        Well, that and that those same SoBs can leverage their profits to induce scarcity where there isn’t naturally to further their profitability.

          • Halasham@dormi.zone
            2·
            12 hours ago

            The owner class don’t create jobs. Work needs to be done regardless of their profitability, however their present control over the means to do it limits the work available to only what is most profitable for them and in as few jobs as possible for that profitable work.