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by jiggliemon 2636 days ago
Then you simply take a loan out from the MTA fund. The same way our lottery monies are allocated towards education, but find their way to fund various pension funds.

Perhaps this new fee will be used to fund MTA’s pension liabilities, and the current spending on pensions gets allocated to food stamps.

New money never goes to where it’s said it’s supposed to go. That’s because government funding is a Ponzi scheme.