cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/29428294
The first congestion charge scheme for vehicles in the US has come into effect in New York.
Car drivers will pay up to $9 (£7) a day, with varying rates for other vehicles.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250105121822/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr2wn3zvqvo
SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fcjr2wn3zvqvo
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.
travel times during rush hour on some routes have more than halved, i’d think that’s a pretty nice thing for the few disabled people who rely on their car to get around.
https://www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com/
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?
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.
Exactly. They just use the excuse, “It’s going to hurt the poor.”
If this charge is then used to fund mass transit then it is win-win
From what I know, that is the plan for most of the funding.
10k is like less than a penny to billionaires though 😭
Yeah but it isn’t to the rest of us.
Well that’s the point of capitalism isn’t it? That scarce resources are provided to those who have a higher market relevance.
Uuh yeah and that is not good obviously…
Well, then you have to focus on changing the underlying economic system.
Well, that and that those same SoBs can leverage their profits to induce scarcity where there isn’t naturally to further their profitability.
That’s where regulations come in, but it can also be good for job creation
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.
Hey I’ll drop out now, I was just arguing to get the brain juices flowing. Peace out