[addicted]

So your recommendation is that instead of picking a system that is simple to implement and understand and has been successfully implemented in multiple cities across the world (and now in NYC as well) they should have opted for a novel system that is way more complicated to implement and understand which would even if it worked perfectly have extremely marginal benefits over the tried and tested system.

[mjevans]

Businesses are already supposed to report worker salary as part of taxes and other regulations, they might even already have to report hours to labor boards.

The change here is also reporting when those hours are worked, possibly to local govs instead of just state/national, and then a zoned tax based on the start and stop times relative to 'congestion windows'. Similarly with 'open hours' for businesses.

That seems more simple and more direct than taxing individual people, taxing the drive of the demand instead.