Austin Huang ❤️ on Nostr: Pre-tax transit benefit effectively serves as an income tax, since it reduces your ...

Pre-tax transit benefit effectively serves as an income tax, since it reduces your taxable income, and while it is mandatory, the amount depends on the fare and is not flexible. On the other hand is Fair Fares NYC, but in the comments of https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-shooting-that-injured-4-followed-fare-evasion-crackdown-in-nycs-poorest-area people have mentioned poor outreach, limited criteria, etc. It still puts the burden on the less economically (and, by extension, technologically) affluent to know and apply for the program, so why not administer one program for everyone?