congress claims concern for you possibly having to pay more for grade A healthcare, but they want to roll you back to a charge that majority would not have to pay for that same health care and you don't even get a aspirin.
Drive your car; don’t take the train.That seems to be the message from Congress after it failed to extend a 5-year-old public transportation tax benefit establishing parity between commuters using mass transit and those paying to park in a garage.Mass-transit commuters have been getting a benefit of $245 a month pre-tax, same as drivers who park in garages.But in what amounts to a hidden fare hike for mass-transit riders, that pre-tax figure for commuters who use the train, ferry or van pool has been slashed to $130 monthly, while increasing to $250 for drivers who pay to park.A commuter earning $50,000 a year and spending $245 per month on transit would pay about $450 extra in 2014 because of the rollback."It is truly idiotic to have a higher subsidy for parking, which would lower the cost of an all-drive commute, compared to a lower subsidy for use of mass transit," said John W. Nabial Sr. of West Windsor, who commutes from Princeton Junction to Manhattan by train. "Based on recent federal government actions, I guess hoping for common sense in the design and passage of laws is a futile expectation."The tax credit is part of a larger package of federal subsidies that have to be renewed at the end of each year — and parity for people riding buses and trains often gets lost in the shuffle during bickering over the "fiscal cliff" and other financial showdowns. One year, it was approved just before the Jan. 1 deadline, and another year it wasn’t renewed until March.
every day you find out more of the unscrupulous ways that republican congress is not what they claim and are what you see, we are they're prey NRA and business greed has created for them an open season on "we the people" and if they aren't killing us with SYG and bullets they are killing us with denial, how long do you want to be a right wing plaything?
An analysis by Tri-State Transportation Campaign found two dozen transit systems — used by commuters in 20 states and the District of Columbia — where commuters spent more than $130 each month on transit passes, including NJ Transit, Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road, as well as SEPTA, which serves Philadelphia and the surrounding region.
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
Speedie theorized that lawmakers in more rural red states did not care as much about mass transit as those in urban Northeast states."I think there is a bias not just to the Northeast per se, but to transit benefits as a whole," said U.S, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who is part of a New Jersey and New York area contingent, most notably including U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), looking to restore the tax benefit to its full amount."It’s going to make people who are pinching pennies say, ‘I may have to take my car; I get more of a benefit,’รข€…" Menendez added during an interview.He said he would try to help get the benefit reinstated sometime after the Senate returns today.
i defy anyone to look at republican legislation and find anything that favors the American people and not just the anti American rich.
