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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Jul 18 12:52:32 2010, in response to Re: I was quoted in today's New York Times, posted by kcram3500 on Sun Jul 18 01:36:05 2010. It's not a question of increasing taxes versus increasing service. Many people including myself wouldn't mind taxes being raised if they knew where the money was going and could see improvements from the tax increase. The reason most people are against tax increases is that the money disappears into the general fund and no one sees any improvements.Politicians have traditionally been against dedicated taxes and when they promise one, they lie or mislead. Look at the lottery for example. All proceeds were to fund education. People thought education would improve so they approved the proposition. Albany promptly reduces its support of eduction from something like 50% of the state budget to something much lower and replaces the money with lottery money. Result: No additional money for education and Albany has extra money to waste as they please. The issue here is how to make the MTA more effective and efficient with minimal cuts to service. You can't do this when you fire service employees and replace them with political hacks earning $217,000 per year and protect all your friends in upper management. Why is there one cleaning supervisor for four employees? Why are cleaners being let go and supervisory vacancies being filled? Why do track workers have to spend unproductive hours waiting for supplies to be delivered? Why doesn't the MTA have more success with union givebacks so they can have more flexibility in operations? First solve these problems, then tell me we need to raise the fare or increase taxes. |
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