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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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