More taxes? Of course, why not!

Love the comments here. Taxes to fund the MTA aren’t so awesome when they affect you, right?

How about instead we just tax those who create and approve more taxes.

Lol mta is mad desperate for money.

Can't tax the rich but we can tax every Tom Dick and Harry with a streaming subscription. Cause our ISPs aren't taxing/feeing us enough.

MTA needs that over time money!

ah so only the rich will be able to afford simple luxuries and art, nice

Too bad they can’t tax torrenting

Good thing I have my Firestick😏😏

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This sub: Tax drivers? YAYYYYYYYY

This sub: Tax shit I use? BOOOOOOO

Change your address to out of state?

They actrually already tax streaming with a sales tax this would be an ADDITIONAL TAX!!! Keev voting the same way lol

why should any of us pay a tax for streaming? this city is already on incredibly expensive and difficult to live in, why on earth should another tax be levied?

That’s what I’m saying but yet I keep running into idiots on here saying drivers should have to pay another tax and toll increases

Be my guest I'll torrent everything I watch

Or they could try making rich people and corporations pay taxes just one fucking time

Neither of you put in a good argument.

Tax is used often to discourage behaviors with negative externalities, like piling tons of cars into Manhattan.

Not sure how that applies to streaming Netflix

That would be true if there wasn’t a strict revenue target on that tax. But since there is, it’s not about discouraging behavior, it’s to raise revenue.

so how are neither of us putting in a good argument if you dont even know how that applies to streaming? mind you im not arguing anything, im asking what would justify that tax

What strict revenue target? You mean expected revenue, the routine calculation for every tax enacted?

I'm not a fan of this tax either, but you're seeing patterns where there isn't any.

My point was taxes on cars, like congestion charges, are not comparable in purpose to taxes on streaming, as far as I can surmise, unless there's a reason we should discourage streaming services.

In the former case, we want to discourage a behavior (diving in Manhattan). In the latter, it seems to be more about raising money

Yes taxing mostly non residents (that’s the focus on the fight, mostly local politicians representing the bridge and tunnel) is much better than taxing residents even more. No problems with that take

“Hey how’s yours cities transit system funded?” “Through my Netflix”

If the system can’t sustain itself maybe it shouldn’t exist 🤷‍♂️ at least not in its current state

Citizens struggle with wild inflation and this is what they want to do!? Can we recall them all?

I hope they tax streaming services, delivery fees, up their taxes on Con Ed, National Grid, your cellphone bill AND raise the fares.

Fifteen billion dollars.
That’s how much money the state legislature mandated the MTA must raise through congestion pricing — by leveraging annual revenue to borrow $15 billion for the transit agency’s current five-year capital program.

THAT strict revenue target. You're ignoring patterns where they are.

And this is why we pirate movies and tv shows

Can I implement an internet tax to pay me for overtime too?

It’s like how some people will scream at corporations for being cheap and then cancel Netflix when it goes up a dollar

Perhaps we rethink next time we tell everyone to stay home for 2 years

RIP fire department :(

Lol exactly.

You should be watching less streaming video. This is the state looking after your best interest.

Raising the minimum wage in NYC again will help raise prices for stuff this sub buys.

Oh the congestion charges. Thought you meant the streaming tax.

Nice copy pasta. It's basically a stipulation for a loan to make sure the burden doesn't fall on the subway rider, or MTA doesn't back out of it, because again, excessive cars have a negative externality.

Look, it's pretty simple. Taxes raise money, and discourage unwanted behavior. I mean they could also just ban cars. Would that be better?

Taxes on home internet service are illegal under federal law, FYI.

Internet Tax Freedom Act

>The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act is a United States law authored by Representative Christopher Cox and Senator Ron Wyden, and signed into law as title XI of Pub. L. 105–277 (text) (PDF) on October 21, 1998 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to promote and preserve the commercial, educational, and informational potential of the Internet. The law bars federal, state and local governments from taxing Internet access and from imposing discriminatory Internet-only taxes such as bit taxes, bandwidth taxes, and email taxes. It also bars multiple taxes on electronic commerce.

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Dems not done enough self-sabotaging???

The government has unlimited money and will never cut costs. Insane. How is this type of government different then a corrupt monopolistic business?

>Tax is used often to discourage behaviors with negative externalities, like piling tons of cars into Manhattan.

Nah, that's just what dipshits like to think who can't apply critical thinking skills. Taxes have one purpose and one purpose only, to line the government's pockets.

The precedent was set with Chicago’s streaming tax, which does not violate federal law.

The tax ban is on internet service itself from your ISP, not services you can purchase over the internet. The person I was replying to implied they were being highly taxed by their ISP for their internet service.