FLCC> Is the NY State Senate nuts?

[William Lodico]

On May 8, 2008, at 1:21 PM, rob at cginy.net wrote:

>  The question I can't ignore is ow many people are
> going to fall off the edge of society in the interim?  Many, many  
> people
> are scraping by as it is and can't bear any more burden.
>


You're not suggesting, are you, that a 3 month gas tax holiday would  
keep anyone from falling off the edge of anything?

What it would do is reduce state and local government's fiscal  
ability to maintain or improve its infrastructure, and compound the  
problems we're already having trying to provide public services,  
ranging from police and fire to schools and to the social safety net,  
all of which help us keep from falling of the edge.

Any erosion of the state and local government's ability to maintain  
its roads is very likely to put some of us cyclists quite literally  
over the edge.  There would be a fair number of cycling friendly  
projects ranging from improved signage to completion of rail-trail  
projects likely to go over the edge as well.

The Senate didn't even address the fiscal responsibility issue.   
Again, here's the Senate's own summary of its homework on this front  
prior to passage of the gas tax holiday bill:

"FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
"To be determined.

"LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
"To be determined."

Determined how?  By one-off experiment on the citizens and taxpayers  
of the State of New York?