'Fair Fares' Discount MetroCard Program Expanding

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by Foamposite

2.75 is not expensive for a fare. I don't know why people think that.

Because usual suspects have got others to cosign onto their pity party about how "unequal" NYC has become. Just read comments from people in linked article; they all say government "should" "help" people pay transit fare.

CUNY students get generous financial aid packages from state and federal that in nearly all instances more than covers tuition, books and related costs of attending college. This includes transportation; so why do they need yet another subsidy?

Seniors, disabled, and others already can get discounted Metro Cards, so again why an additional taxpayer subsidy?

[BugsyPal]

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.

Dame Margaret Thatcher


To wit:

https://gothamist.com/news/half-pric...living-poverty

[foxyknoxy]

Too many pay $0.

[Aeran]

Amid criticism from MTA members, de Blasio pledges ‘aggressive’ Fair Fares outreach

https://www.amny.com/transit/mayor-p...ares-outreach/

Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged on Tuesday an “aggressive” effort to advertise the city’s half-priced transit fare program for low-income New Yorkers known as Fair Fares, following criticism from state transit bigwigs and advocates that City Hall wasn’t doing enough to make needy commuters aware of the benefit.

“We’ve put a lot of money in the budget to start it up again and promote it,” de Blasio said in response to a question by amNewYork Metro at his July 20 briefing. “I definitely want an aggressive outreach effort.”

The mayor and the City Council quietly restored funding for the two-year-old program to $53 million in this year’s city budget, half of pre-pandemic levels when $106 million was earmarked for the initiative, and de Blasio reiterated his administration’s approach Tuesday that officials would boost funding if demand grows.

“If it becomes more and more popular, we’ll make adjustments to keep ensuring that it can grow,” he said. “I think it’s something that really helps people, but you know, we also need to see people coming back to the subways in the kind of numbers we use to know to really get to the full impact.”

[djohnslaw]

Originally Posted by pierrepont7731

$2.75 doesn’t include all of the monies that we are taxed that goes to the MTA.

people who qualify for this aren't paying taxes and are getting tons of benefits

[DreamerD]

Originally Posted by SoullessOne

What i find odd is that at minimum wage $15 /hr that qualifies for a household income of 5 people. So this is basically set up for welfare queens, retired, or elderly folks with fixed incomes.

Anyone who has a full time job is automatically disqualified.

Exactly! This is why I find welfare in this country to be not truly welfare. Anywhere in the US, if you work full-time then you can't get benefits. And then when you're doing better, instead of the benefits being taken away little by little, they take the entire thing away, which tends to entrap people. It makes no f ing sense.