The New York Sun Always Misses the Train

Tuesday’s editorial entitled “Highway Robbery” lambasts the proposal for a time sensitive commuter tax. Now, reasonable people can make the argument that additional taxes for greater New York citizens is a bad idea.

But the Sun argues something unreasonable. It blasts public transit, and expresses horror that London’s citizen have been “forced” into using it. It attempts to discredit public transportation by simply noting that it is “socialist.” Remarkably, for a Jewish neocon newspaper that should seek a lesser reliancy on Arab oil and not a greater one, their answer is the same trickle down ‘one tax cut fits all’ solution for this problem as it does for many problems.

The Sun writes that,

“The better way to go about this would be to reduce taxes at the top margin in the city, which would provide incentives to growth and expand the city’s revenues, enabling it to improve its intrastructure so that driving and parking wouldn’t be so difficult for those for whom, like so many of us, time is money.”

The Sun fought against Proposition #2, and constantly advocates privatizing the subway, a horrible idea, as it doesn’t allow for subsidies, which the system deserves, as people who don’t use should still pay for it to some degree, as they benefit from less traffic and less pollution. The Sun is as consistently irresponsible in transit solutions as it is in proposed projects to spread democracy in the Middle East.

Of course, in the Middle East, the Sun is more inclined to allow for eminent domain.