{"id":4831,"date":"2009-05-06T08:07:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2009-05-06T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:07:53","slug":"explain_me_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/explain_me_please.html","title":{"rendered":"Explain Me, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve-county payroll taxes, fare increases, toll increases &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/06\/nyregion\/06mta.html\">fine<\/a>: everyone pays a little, whatever. But in a time when elected officials use taxes as both a way to change behavior and raise massive amounts of money (through either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/flack_jacket_fi.html\">congestion pricing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/i_did_it_for_the_tollz.html\">tolls<\/a> &#8212; and then actually via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/guess_ill_have_to_start_returning_all_my_beer_cans_in_those_blue_new_york_times_home_delivery_bags_from_now_on.html\">plastic bags<\/a>), what exactly is the point of a 50-cent surcharge on taxi rides? To punish people who don&#8217;t own cars? To force women to take subways late at night? To mess with the TLC?<\/p>\n<p>And are taxi riders really paying for &#8220;upstate&#8221; highways? How far upstate exactly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve-county payroll taxes, fare increases, toll increases &#8212; fine: everyone pays a little, whatever. But in a time when elected officials use taxes as both a way to change behavior and raise massive amounts of money (through either congestion pricing or tolls &#8212; and then actually via plastic bags), what exactly is the point of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}