The people should vote to reduce the fire and police departments pensions by fifty percent. That will fix the money problems of the city.

I say Nuts. If this is what it has come to then close government fire and police departments and have private contractors to their jobs. They would be cheaper.

Only if our governments had not spent us into oblivion!

Why stop at accidents? FDNY should charge us for all EMS (ambulance) calls. If you get shot in the chest and an ambulance is called, that’s $100. NYC can recoup even more money if we charge for NYPD calls as well. If you are assaulted and the cops come to the rescue, that’s $75. If it’s a simple robbery, $50. We can offer a volume discount. If you’re robbed a third time, it’s a freebie.

Mike is an arrogant Lib idiot in disguise. This is par for this arrogant elitist upper West side ruled city gone tourist trap. Time to get outta dodge.

of coarse bloomberg supports hurting the middle class. the poor dont drive or wont pay or will be exempt, the rich wont feel it so why not just make every middle class new yorker who actually pays the taxes pay now

Time to move out of New York!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

charge bloomberg a stupidity tax $1 mill…..problem solved

Our tax dollars already go towards their time served and supplies, so to charge someone for the service when needed amounts to double billing. The FDNY gets paid no matter whether they are called to a scene or not. The city buys gas for them and the more they buy, the lower the total cost per gallon. If they are called to a scene and another call comes in, another unit is sent. It’s not as if there isn’t enough coverage. This is a sham and really shameful on the part of the suggestor (Mayor?) and whomever votes for this.

I will just stay out of New York

If they implement this, it shoudl be as they say, not as they’re doing. In other words, bill the responsible party in an accident. Also, what about the situation where, for example, one is a passenger in a cab. (Am I the only one who’s been in a cab in NYC that’s been in an accident?). Are they going to NOT want to call 911 even if needed? They think they can put out a fire or tell a passenger ‘you’re ot jurt’. What if I’m the passengr and I call 911. Who gets the bill? This seems absurd,.

FDNY: 95% white men, few Blacks, Africans, Hispanics, Asians. The FDNY has been sued many times for their discriminatory hiring practices. Still they’re much better than the NYPD (police) both when it comes to professionalism and relationship with minority communities. But clearly FDNY and NYPD need to break down the walls that limit the number of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians that are allowed to enter.

The tax is charges are a non issue, most public services will be privitized and we’ll pay through the noses both as taxpayers (paying the individual govt employees) then again if we need services (postal, NYPD, NYFD, schools, etc)

The rich get richer

The plan is to eventually PRIVITIZE all services (police, fire department, postal service schools, etc). That will make the rich richer, and put the poor, working class and even middle-class families under the financial control of a very corrupt greedy system.

In New York, and around America, many former postal service building are already being sold cheaply to rich SOBs and their corporations.

The entire crashing of the global economy was: a) A result of the greed of rich Wall Street types; b) A plan to be followed by the cheap acquisition of land, power by the ELITE.

People…dig a little deeper instead of reading everything word for word that this site writes. I do believe the headline was miswritten, as the FDNY is not the one implementing this tax…it’s the City. The FDNY is only an instrument in implementing this tax. Any bill generated by a response to your need to be pulled from a burning vehicle or because someone crashed taking a highway exit too fast…will be coming from the City of New York. Don’t be so quick to blame the FDNY for this. It’s only now that Bloomberg is in our pockets like very other rich person, that this tax is being instituted. I don’t think any mayor prior to Bloomberg would have done this…not even Giuliani. Please look at the bigger picture.

What the hell. Drop dead Bloomberg. FDNY already gets enough welfare via PENSIONS or glorified welfare. Free Food and booze. Drop dead as well. Aint no heros but drunken laziness.

i AM A RETIRED FIREMAN . I cannot believe this would happen to the best fire dept in the world. When 911 happened all the bosses with a little balls passed. It will never be the same dept. With this mayor it might be a good thing People will realize he will never understand the regular working person. and he will never get to Washington.
I am sure this will also settle the battle of the shields. people will not want the FD to respond I hope you get the right to tell them no thanks stay in quarters.
NY is not a friendly place , Taxed to high , Tickets for everything . Soon it will be Bloombergs playground with only his friends.

I remember 30 years ago when I was in the Missouri National Guard and the K.C. Firemen went on strike. It wasn’t that tough fighting the fires when we had water, the hard part was when the striking FIREMEN CAME TO THE FIRES AND CUT THE HOSES. Gotta love those wonderful fellas. Having just retired from the NYPD after 25 years, I can tell you that firemen are the same nationwide.

Pathetic is an understatement. So it makes perfect sense that mental-midget Mikey supports it. How on earth did that skeet get elected to a third term? If he ever becomes President then I am moving to North Korea … life will be better under that regime.

GREAT !!!!!!! STATS SHOW ITS FOR DWI TYPES OR DUI MAKE THEM PAY !!!!!!!!

What’s so odd about that? New Yorkers who call 911 and take a city ambulance to the nearest emergency room have been charged for decades. The current charge is well over $1000. Ask anyone who’s uninsured. Perhaps you have tax-free corporate-sponsored insurance and never knew?

This whole “crash-tax” idea is pathetic, and I don’t even live in NY. According to the report, instituting it will raise $1M. I don’t know an awful lot about NY politics, but all I can say is if Rhode island enacted this as law, that $1M would disappear overnight, with “nobody” knowing what happened to it.

Being that NY pols will somehow be in charge of this money when it comes in, I can’t see them doing anything differently. If they’re anything like Rangel, that money will never make it into the general treasury.

This is ridiculous. is this a joke? Are you serious?

I lose all respect for the FDNY if they implement this tax. Just like the red light cameras, government at its worse getting into business it should not.

I think this is great. Maybe more people will think twice about driving in the city when we have the best public transportation system in the world. I moved to NYC from Poughkeepsie 17 years ago and haven’t owned a car for 16 years. I cannot fathom why more New Yorkers don’t h=give up their cars.

I do think the fees that the FDNY is proposing may be a bit higher than they need to be, but conceptually this is a great idea.

Yet another reason to be embarassed to be a new yorker.