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|    Popping Mad to Ruben Safir    |
|    Re: The MTA Monopoly - closing the looph    |
|    31 Aug 22 08:04:05    |
      From: rainbow@colition.gov              On 8/25/22 12:53, Ruben Safir wrote:       > The MTA is demanding to close all the loopholes that allows someone to       > move in NYC without the MTA first getting paid.       >       > First, in response to the $2.75 cents everyone must pay if they use a       > cab instead of one of the MTAs siffy trains, they are responding to the       > congression pricing tax hike and MTA ripoff by telling Cab drivers that       > they will give them excellerated positions as Bus Drivers.       >       > You can't make this shit up and it would be funny if it wasn't real.       >       > The only people not paying the MTA to move in NYC now are the fare       > beaters which might well be now most of the Subway ridership.       >       >              Taken together, a perfectly operating public authority would work       on public projects, be privately-operated and so attempt to be       efficiently run, be unconstrained by voters, and make decisions       that would most benefit the authority.              That IS the problem in a nutshell..              https://www.albanygovernmentlawreview.org/article/36856.pdf              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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