Calm down, the MTA won't collapse without congestion pricing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : When the governor's office floated an idea to replace congestion-pricing funds with another tax -- increasing an existing MTA tax on downstate payrolls -- suddenly, last week, socialists in the Legislature found they were staunch Reaganite anti-taxers.
50% : So there is time for lawmakers to do what they've never done, from signing the congestion-pricing law with zero scrutiny of the details in 2019, to awarding the agency $1.5 billion in annual tax revenues a decade previously in a late-night "emergency.

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