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But someone has to pay? Broadly speaking either

1) The businesses pay to get their human resources to work

2) The travellers pay or

3) Central taxation pays

So who should pay in New York?



Obviously taxes. Those who benefit most from public transit are those least able to afford it, but making the cost baked in to the wealth of the people can driven even someone with a personal driver to maybe fathom using the tube instead once in a while if its borderline free.


It's not so obvious who you are going to tax. Are you going to do it from income taxes, local property taxes,local business taxes, corporation taxes?




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