Bloomberg Waits for Assembly Majority on Commuter Tax
After Sheldon Silver dropped the news that he's open to reinstituting the commuter tax, Michael Bloomberg told reporters in City Hall that he himself is also in favor of bringing it back. Bloomberg stopped short of demanding Republican state lawmakers take action.
“I’ve always thought it was a very bad mistake to give up the commuter tax back when it was done,” the mayor said. “I’ve been screaming about the commuter tax for all the time I’ve been here.”
New York City's commuter tax was lifted in 1999.
Bloomberg added, “The fact that the speaker is in favor of it is encouraging, but there’s 145-odd members in the Assembly, and we’re going to need a majority of them, as well, if we are to reinstitute it.”
That, essentially, was the lesson of the failure of congestion pricing.
does Bloomberg have influence on Dean Skelos and his Republican colleagues or is he just pee-ing his millions to keep them in power?
Please make sure you mention Silver's involvement in the repeal of the commuter tax. Lead by Pataki and Bruno (both happily gone) but the repeal would not have succeeded without Silver.
Will he address his flip-flip or the billions lost by its repeal? Given his slippery-ness with his involvement in the demise of Congestion Pricing I bet he says nothing.
Sheldon Silver needs to go. His politicking costs the city billions and his ethics are far from clean (come clean on the lobbying and law firm work Shelly) so hoe do we get rid of him?
Way too much power for a guy voted into office by less than 6300 votes.
hey Dave, or should I say paul.
News Flash: you lost the primary, you got the crap beaten out of you.
Shelly is loved by his constituents and by his members.
Given the fact that the state constitution provides the rules that have given him this power you can do two things:
1. try to have an ammendment constitution voted in, or
2. go live in another state because shelly will not be voted out by his constituents or by his members.
Sux for you.
If those who live in the suburbs have to pay to work in NYC then...
those who live in NYC should pay to work on LI, Westchester, Hudson Valley, NJ, CT, etc...
OVER 300,000 NYC RESIDENTS WORK IN THE SUBURBS (increasing each yr)!!!
Its only fair to tax the Reverse Commuters TOO !!!