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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 4707362" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><h3>New Yorkers May Have to Pay Package Delivery Surcharge to Help Fund MTA</h3><p>With the Metropolitan Transportation Authority facing a budget crisis, New Yorkers may have to dig into their pockets to help out.</p><p>Under a new proposed bill, New York City residents would be required to pay a $3 surcharge on packages they ordered online, with the exception for medicine and food.</p><p>Assemblyman Robert Carroll, who proposed the bill, says the online shopping fee would raise more than $1 billion a year "to fund the operating costs of buses and subways in the city of New York."</p><p>In a joint <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-how-to-save-the-mta-20201207-pinjgghz75hkxlwfxmbyq7lc3e-story.html" target="_blank">Daily News</a> op-ed with John Samuelsen, the International President of the Transport Workers Union, Carroll (D-Brooklyn) said the MTA cannot rely solely on a federal bailout.</p><p>They argued that the surcharge would incentivize New Yorkers to support small local businesses instead of buying from corporations like Amazon or Walmart.</p><p>"A delivery surcharge will also undoubtedly encourage consumers, and the Amazons of the world, to more regularly consolidate multiple items into a single package for delivery," they wrote.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 4707362, member: 12952"] [HEADING=2]New Yorkers May Have to Pay Package Delivery Surcharge to Help Fund MTA[/HEADING] With the Metropolitan Transportation Authority facing a budget crisis, New Yorkers may have to dig into their pockets to help out. Under a new proposed bill, New York City residents would be required to pay a $3 surcharge on packages they ordered online, with the exception for medicine and food. Assemblyman Robert Carroll, who proposed the bill, says the online shopping fee would raise more than $1 billion a year "to fund the operating costs of buses and subways in the city of New York." In a joint [URL='https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-how-to-save-the-mta-20201207-pinjgghz75hkxlwfxmbyq7lc3e-story.html']Daily News[/URL] op-ed with John Samuelsen, the International President of the Transport Workers Union, Carroll (D-Brooklyn) said the MTA cannot rely solely on a federal bailout. They argued that the surcharge would incentivize New Yorkers to support small local businesses instead of buying from corporations like Amazon or Walmart. "A delivery surcharge will also undoubtedly encourage consumers, and the Amazons of the world, to more regularly consolidate multiple items into a single package for delivery," they wrote. [/QUOTE]
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