while that article contained some of the taxes - it left half the meat off of it. there will also be a tax to go to the movies, to see sports events (which arent inflated enough apparently) and also an 'e-tax' or is that 'i-tax' which will tax your itunes downloads. Im not sure what else im leaving off the list, but its all consuming.
and for today's news:
Fare hike horror OK?d; next, last stop Albany
Enraged rider arrested as he tries to hurl shoe at MTA chief?s head
by patrick arden / metro new york
> email this to a friend
DEC 18, 2008
Inspired by a now-famous Iraqi reporter, an angry subway rider reached for his shoe at yesterday?s MTA board meeting, just before the agency approved a 2009 budget with service cuts and a whopping 23 percent fare hike.
?Where?s Elliot Sander?? asked Stephen Millies, 54, an Amtrak worker from Jackson Heights who noted the MTA boss took home more than $300,000 last year. ?This shoe?s for you.?
He was led away in handcuffs without throwing the shoe, but Millies voiced a message that was not radically different from the 21 other public speakers who addressed the board before its vote.
Lynne Serpe of Astoria was upset by the elimination of the W subway line, but she was fuming about the ?absolutely appalling? 150 percent increase in Access-a-Ride fares. Her father has dialysis three times a week.
Sander had called the new budget ?draconian,? ?very harsh? and ?extremely painful.?
?I understand the anger,? he said yesterday. ?We do not want to have to implement such difficult service cuts and fare increases, but our $1.2 billion deficit leaves us with no choice.?
Sander vowed to lobby state lawmakers to enact the funding ideas of a panel led by former MTA chair Richard Ravitch, and he called on riders to do the same.
The recommendations would lower the fare hike and avoid the service cuts, but they include an unpopular payroll tax and bridge tolls.
