If Jack Citarelli gets elected and it's a close election, he is going to retaliate with a commuter tax against people leaving New York. And this is all it does. It accelerates these foolish, ridiculous taxes that do nothing for nobody except put money in the mta, the money taking agency that has no fiscal controls. It just keeps spending money like the federal government, like they have a printing press. No, absolutely not. And if you just walk the streets, why are all these small businesses closing? (1:12:18–1:12:31)
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Asserts that congestion pricing taxes only benefit the MTA, which lacks fiscal controls.
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