• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Gonna be honest, this is the worst best thing I’ve heard him do.

    Income based means testing policy is awful. I’d have to read more on how it’s being implemented. Hopefully just a step towards free transit.

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      3 days ago

      Easy. Im not sure how they did it, but they can just piggyback it off something else like food stamps.

      So it could be - All riders who present an EBT card with their legal name on it are eligible for half price.

      Is it perfect? No, but it’s a damn good and easy step in the right direction.

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      3 days ago

      It’s dumb but it’s an existing 50% discount program he’s just increasing the income limit. Probably the best thing about this is drawing attention to the program since most of the people eligible don’t know it exists.

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        3 days ago

        Thanks. That’s definitely better than I thought. That it was existing I mean. Doing all the infra required to add a means tested program did not sound like a Mamdani style policy. But just making it a less strict means test is a step in the right direction. Just better quality of life changes over and over from Mamdani. He’s really selling sewer socialism well to New York.