Posted on 06/26/2023 9:33:36 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
The price of environmentalism has always concerned conservatives, but now even New Jersey Democrats are getting upset about the costs on taxpayers under the guise of helping curb emissions.
Federal transportation officials have green lighted New York's plan to charge escalating congestion tolls for drivers entering parts of Manhattan and New Jersey Democrats are "outraged," Politico reported.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., expressed their disappointment the Federal Highway Administration has allowed the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's congestion pricing to go forward without more review and environmental studies.
The MTA is considering fares ranging from $9 to $23 for passenger vehicles and $12 and $82 for trucks, according to the report.
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Come on New York. put those blue bozos back in their place. Raise the non-resident income tax.
We’re not all liberals here.
What the NJ Dems are pissed about is that the dough is going to NYC and they won’t get a cut.
However, you ARE there.
Lol
I’d like to see trucks decide 50 or 82 dollars is just not worth paying to deliver anything in NYC.
And where you live there’s none?
And my living here doesn’t I’m one of them.
I know, I'm just giving you a hard time.
Liberal Socialist Democrat Scum simply pops up in Civilization, and multiplies like Fungus, Mushrooms, Cockroaches, Lice, Fleas, Mosquitos and such in a coordinated plan to destroy it.
Your only fault is you didn't step on enough bugs.
And we don't need to go into all the Revolutionary War history here, right?
Even though the bloody colony was more loyalist than rebels.
“We’re not all liberals here…”
I am in MA. I know exactly what you mean. But there are many folks on FR who have no ability to see grey; it’s black or white. All or nothing.
We used to be able to converse. Apparently, not so much anymore.
‘’who have no ability to see grey; it’s black or white’’.
Beware people who live in a world of absolutes.
Chastising people who live in liberal dominated areas are sometime unwilling or unable to understand they can become what it is they beheld.
“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue’’.
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