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THE BRONX - A local lawmaker wants a donation-driven fund to help subsidize MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers.
Councilman Fernando Cabrera says a donation system would do the trick. He wants to give card buyers the option to contribute to those struggling to pay their fare. He introduced his plan to City Council last week.
In addition to soliciting donations when MetroCards are sold, the proposal would place money from unused, expired MetroCards in the fund. Cabrera says more than $50 million in cards go unused every year.
The wealthy are taken care of by politicians who make laws to lower their taxes and provide laws that benefit their pockets.
The Poor/lower income class are helped by politicians who make laws to help the less fortunate, donations of all sorts, medicaid, free cell phones, free internet, EBT, food stamps/SNAP, list goes on.
Where are the politicians making laws to benefit the working/middle class?
The wealthy are taken care of by politicians who make laws to lower their taxes and provide laws that benefit their pockets.
The Poor/lower income class are helped by politicians who make laws to help the less fortunate, donations of all sorts, medicaid, free cell phones, free internet, EBT, food stamps/SNAP, list goes on.
Where are the politicians making laws to benefit the working/middle class?
Ahh, the good old "the poor have it so easy, what do we middle class folk get?"
I don't know how I feel about this, a subway fare is still pretty cheap. If the minimum wage becomes 15 dollars an hour and the subway fare doesn't rise or doesn't rise much higher than it is now, even someone making minimum wage can pay for their daily trip with less than half an hour of work.
As l1995 stated, with this new $15 minimum wage being phased in (the so-called "living wage"), why are we expanding the welfare state even more? On a more fundamental note, I'd support this proposal generally as it doesn't require new taxes, but would ultimately be opposed as I don't trust leftist politicians to eventually institute a tax to pay for the program when donations aren't coming in to meet their goals.
with drivers getting hammered for most of the costs how about a fund to ease the pain of drivers in nyc . tolls , meters , registration are insane .
I'd imagine most low income people depend on public transportatiom rather than driving themselves. Would be interesting to see what the statistical distribution is though.
I'd also think that it's financially more efficient to move people via mass transit than by private cars. Most NYers can survive without a car if they really wanted to. The only parts where I think it's impractical is parts of Staten Island and northeastern Queens.
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