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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by SilasX on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:36PM (#19574278)
>Taxing trucks, used for transporting groceries, goods, and packages to the city, will increase the cost of each of these goods. The increase in grocery prices serves as a regressive tax on all people living within the congestion pricing zone.

You're already effectively paying a premium to account for the extra time the drivers have to spend in traffic. It's not clear whether the congestion charges will be more than the labor-time saved.

Also, a general point: typical market goods are, by default, "regressively priced", because most of them don't look at your income to determine the price. This is generally a good thing, because if every good's price scaled with income, there would be no material gain to earning an extra dollar.

Any time you recognize a real scarcity and ensure it's priced explicitly rather than allocated by an ever-choked queue, it's going to be regressive in this sense. That shouldn't be a deal-breaker by itself.

Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by arrty88 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:33PM (#19575631)
Until the subway can transport packaged goods, i think its pretty unfair to tax UPS / FedEx etc
Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by megy on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:20PM (#19578450)
Why? They cause congestion, the take up space, they need to be taxed.