It's pretty unlikely that the rest of the state is a tax donor to the city, much less the MTA, though I'm not sure any official numbers even exist. Outside of the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and the city itself (roughly 13-16 million of the 19 million people in the state), NYS is practically a red state in terms of economy and (often lack of) culture --- more like Ohio than the metro area, in any case. There are exceptions, like some of the declining urban areas, but by and large west and north of the Hudson Valley is full of people who really don't identify with urban life in any way and, since the factory closings starting in the 1970s, don't really have any economic base to fall back on. Whether or not Putnam County is helping to fund the NYCTA is one thing, but I seriously doubt anything is coming from Watertown or Elmira. As for Long Island and the Hudson Valley, they depend heavily on the MTA. Not as heavily as NYC, but it's important. Why Is This Price Gouging 779I don't know about "people", but in this instance (NYC cabbies), and other instances of price gouging that I can think of, we are indeed talking about a... That said, there is something to the point that NYS has become far too unitary. The state government almost operates as a second municipal government for NYC, and upstaters should rightly be peeed about that.
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