Passenger Trains > NYC MTA board member utters the "T" word

http://nypost.com/2017/07/20/mta-board-member-wants-to-raise-taxes-to-fix-subways/

Mr Ward is an executive of the hotel and restaurant workers union. The huge MTA board is composed of governor's appointees, mayor's appointees, county officers, business and labor leaders, representatives of the operating unions, and a rider's representative (singular).

Up until a few years ago, people who worked in New York City paid a --city-- income tax (non-resident), part of which went to the MTA. The non-resident city income tax went away in an Albany boondoggle over an Orthodox swing district in Rockland County.

A constructive non-resident income tax affecting people who work in the MTA region / city or earn income there could help finance the improvements. Especially if it was accompanied by a NJ surcharge for NJ Transit on all NJ incomes.

(People who live in NJ, but work in NY pay taxes to both jurisdictions. NY takes first, and grabs 7%, which includes a slice for the MTA. NJ lets you take about a third of the 7% as a credit against your NJ taxes, and charges you again on the same income. The NY tax guide is longer than the federal guide for individual tax payers)