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Taxi Motorcade Drives Message to Albany: No Taxi Tax! Not on Our Backs! |
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 22:41 |
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Dozens of taxis caravanned to Albany on Tuesday, April 28th turning the streets and highways of New York into a sea of yellow from Manhattan to Albany and across the Thruway. Taxis from NYTWA and LOMTO (League of Mutual Taxi Owners) covered window to window with signs of, “No Taxi Tax,” “Not On Our Backs,” and “Support Jet Fuel Tax” traveled 300 miles round trip to stop lawmakers from passing a $1 taxi tax as toward a bailout of the MTA and to fix upstate roads and bridges. The proposal is now in the Rules Committee and a full Senate vote is expected the week of May 4th. The bill would then go to the Assembly. Fifty taxis, seventy drivers and industry representatives traveled to make Albany hear the pleas of over 47,000-licensed taxi drivers: We are struggling enough. Don’t single us out. The taxi tax has been under growing criticism. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called it bothersome and impractical. Governor Paterson said the $1 would be too burdensome to already struggling drivers. Click here to read entire press release or download press release here.
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Read more: Drivers Rally with AM Rivera to Reject Taxi Tax; Loud Call for Modest Increase in Jet Fuel Tax
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