Stop NYC Congestion Tax

I think it’s worth highlighting the following apparent contradiction from the Senate Majority, which supports Bloomberg’s Congestion Tax.  Below is from a Senate press release promising to reject one of former Governor Spitzer’s proposed tax increases on cars.  Hopefully, there will be enough members of the Senate Majority who will realize that they will jeopardize […]

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At Monday’s City Council hearings, the news was out that Governor Paterson finally introduced legislation to implement the Congestion Tax, with less than a week for the City and State to make a decision by its own March 31st deadline.
The legislation was subsequently sponsored in the State Senate by Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and just […]

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At present, the State Legislature has not formally introduced any legislation for the City Council to review. Therefore, unless that changes by Monday’s hearing, the City Council will have to make a recommendation completely ignorant of what the actual legislation authorizing the Congestion Tax says, which is like signing a piece of paper agreeing […]

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Though this may seem like a recent phenomenon in NYC, namely taxing people twice to use their own streets, it is hardly the case. After some research, it appears that the Federal government and New York City had been, internally, grappling with the issue of whether or not to pursue any sort of implementation […]

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