The Bloomberg Congestion Testimony [Updated]
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Here's the mayor, among friends, getting set to testify today in midtown at an Assembly hearing about congestion pricing.
He's arguing that in addition to the potential benefits to the city, there's very little downside to trying it out as a pilot program.
"The worse case scenario is we walk away with the federal money," Bloomberg said.
Later, he addressed the issue of a potential threat to civil liberties, which Assemblyman Richard Brodsky raised yesterday in the context of the Bush administration's security-related surveillance programs.
Bloomberg said such concerns "aren't terribly realistic."
UPDATE: Also, on the same subject, this:
"If George Bush came up with motherhood and apple pie, people would be against it."
RE: Congesting Pricing.....
More Taxation is all it means. Other times it is described as a coded word of "Temporary Tax" (That never goes away), or called a "Surcharge" in your monthly bill.
New York City has become a "Nanny State" under Bloomberg. My rights are chipped away piece by piece.
Jim Kelly - Conservative Campaigns
bloomberg's legacy besides being a failure as a city manager will be how he has taxed the middle class nearly out of existence.Btw, it should be obvious that he just doesn't give a crap about people living in the other 4 boroughs that make up NYC.
blomberg's record as mayor is a joke, a pathetic joke.