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New York City’s congestion pricing has cut pollution and traffic – but Trump still wants to kill it
(www.theguardian.com)
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I don't understand why he's against it.
I would have expected him not only to support it, but want the rates raised to roof, so that him and his rich buddies don't have to deal with traffic.
He's spiteful and stupid.
Two reasons:
He doesn't get a cut of the money.
It infringes on what many in the US see as a basic human right: the ability to own and drive a car. If he were still a Democrat and pandering to that segment of the population, he would be all for this. But he is pandering to the people who don't like to be told they can or can't do anything, even if it is better for both them and the world around them, so he has to be against it. Also, it is framed as lowering pollution, which is (for whatever asinine reasons) something conservatives hate.
This is basically like a Fast Pass at a theme park. Rich people pay extra to be able to get somewhere faster. Normally, the GOP are all for giving advantages to rich people. But in this case it hurts two of their fundamental principles.
That Stockholm Syndrome is so wild to me - the car culture was foisted onto Americans. Even if you expose them to information about how this came to be, they still insist that driving back and forth 1+ hours every weekday from tract housing to the city for a job, with no truly viable public transit, is the peak of freedom and prosperity. And they have to spend lots of time, energy and money (and toxic inputs) into a lawn in many cases, too, mandated by HOAs. Eating up lots of their free time...
If you ever engage with some of these people that are so entrenched in their thinking about this, they'll act like the only other offering is some kind of WEF-ian "you'll own nothing and be happy", as if there is nothing else on the table but those two options - suburbian hellscape that requires a car to do anything at all, or....some kind of dystopian thing that WEF is accused of wanting to impose.
Because it proves that governments can take actions that help regular people. This is anathema to the GOP. The people must not be allowed to figure this out.