NYC taxes, was: Toll Hikes, Fare Hikes, War Hikes 2047

Nobody says you have to make your living due to taxpayer revenues. But if you do, you too should be a taxpayer of that government.

Yet these people aren't the problem. Given the generous pay scales of city-jobs, they earn enough to live somewhere in the five boroughs. The problem that you have is many people don't make enough of a contribution to the private-sector economy relative to the services they consume.

The problem were geniuses who thought it was a good idea to put acres worth of housing projects in one spot, when all that did was create "hot spots" that no private sector business would invest in.

Again, NYC is NOT ALONE in taxing people who work there. Everybody else does it too. If you work in a different area from where you live, the primary tax beneficiary is the city-state where you're employed. You receive a credit from your home state and city. That's as it should be.

Commuters do require police, fire protection and medical services, among others. It's not like they consume nothing.

No, it doesn't. Supply and demand raises the cost of housing in NYC -- COMBINED with our insistence of interfering with the free market through rent regulation. Rent regulation has a FAR greater impact on pricing.

If we razed housing projects, gave those individuals time-limited vouchers to secure private-sector housing and used the land those projects occupied for productive develoopment, THAT would be a start. for affordable rental apartments, that would be a start.