Thanks Aleks!

Will give this a read for sure. Thanks! I am interested in the equity piece of all this but am no economist, so that’s exactly what I’m looking for. Maybe I am underestimating just how big the gap is between those who drive and those who don’t in NYC.

Or not even that there isn’t a more progressive way (we can’t let perfection be the enemy of progress, and I support the goals here), but that this isn’t another way of trying to gain worthwhile progressive outcomes but while protecting the wealthy.

I’m a huge fan of those benefits. I’m just wondering if there isn’t a more progressive way of obtaining that revenue.

As for sales tax, sure, I tend to lean against anything that financially burdens lower income folks to an equal or higher degree than higher income folks…

To be clear, I’m not really taking a stand here as much as I can’t get around the idea that it seems like another way that pro-inequality policies slip in as somehow pro-equality… just looking for what I’m missing here.

But of those who do own cars, the burden is higher for those with lower than with higher income, no?