Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips column: Another tax hike for a broken system: Hochul’s MTA money grab Hurts New Yorkers

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s latest scheme to raise the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax—AKA the MTA Payroll
Tax—is yet another blow to New York’s businesses and working-class families.

The governor’s plan to increase the MTA Payroll Tax is just one more regressive maneuver by an out-of-touch Hochul Administration to prop up a dysfunctional and failing mass transit system on the backs of overburdened businesses.