New York Post Article Rating

Calm down, the MTA won't collapse without congestion pricing

Jun 09, 2024 View Original Article
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    Center

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    35% ReliableFair

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : When the governor's office floated an idea to replace congestion-pricing funds with another tax -- increasing an existing MTA tax on downstate payrolls -- suddenly, last week, socialists in the Legislature found they were staunch Reaganite anti-taxers.
50% : So there is time for lawmakers to do what they've never done, from signing the congestion-pricing law with zero scrutiny of the details in 2019, to awarding the agency $1.5 billion in annual tax revenues a decade previously in a late-night "emergency.

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