You Already Paid

Only Trump could convince the imploding Democrats to sue him in court in order to tax a group of already over-taxed New Yorkers for driving on a street you already paid a toll to drive on.

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) February 20, 2025

New York’s congestion pricing scheme was an abusive shakedown of working-class Americans. That’s why I shut it down today. pic.twitter.com/ghxArEHsVA

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 20, 2025

… [CBS Why can't New York City determine what it wants to charge for people to come in and out?

[Secretary Sean Duffy] So we give them the authority, number one. And so the American taxpayer, the New York taxpayer, funded those streets. And the way the governor set this up is, she said, even though you already paid for these streets, you can't use those streets unless you pay an additional toll.

Well, if I'm the taxpayer, I'm like, I already paid for the street. Why am I paying an additional toll to the taxes I already paid? There's no free pathway into that corridoned area, right?

So if you're a middle income or a lower income shopper or worker, you can't access public roads by any means into this area? That's flat out wrong. And we've never had a program like that where there's not a free public road to get in to a certain area, number one.

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