The payroll tax ... threats to cut funding for the Long Island bus .. rising fares on the Long Island Railroad and the elimination of bus routes in Nassau. Those were some recent measures taken to …
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Mike Caputo
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8/4/10
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is continuing its long tradition of asking Long Islanders to solve its fiscal problems. We need to tell the Board of Directors at the MTA "enough is enough."
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Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr.
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7/30/10
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Only a year ago, the New York State Legislature was wrangling behind closed doors over a deal to bail out the fiscally troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agreement, which imposed a commuter payroll tax on counties served by the MTA, including Nassau County, was supposed to put the authority on a sound financial footing.
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3/26/10
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