bill bans the use of third-party contractors to handle \u201clast-mile\u201d deliveries<\/a>, but it\u2019s hard to see what\u2019s wrong with using contractors to save money \u2014 when the city itself contracts out billions in social-services work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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For all the talk about affordability, this would cost New Yorkers hundreds of dollars a year in higher delivery costs, because Amazon won\u2019t eat the added expense.<\/p>\n
Indeed, costs would nearly double for all deliveries, with service also likely slower and less reliable.<\/p>\n
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And hundreds of New Yorkers would lose their jobs, while the small-scale, often minority- and women-owned firms that employ them \u2014 entrepreneurs who built their businesses from scratch \u2014 go out of business or leave town so they can operate outside City Hall\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n
Amazon doesn\u2019t have to put warehouses inside the five boroughs, either: This idiocy will likely also force longer delivery times, more traffic congestion and more pollution.<\/p>\n
This is a moronic effort to curry favor with the Teamsters in the name of bashing big bad Amazon, but (as with most of the City Council\u2019s and mayor\u2019s efforts to \u201chelp\u201d low-end service workers) the perverse results should be obvious.<\/p>\n
Before the politicians do any more meddling in industries they clearly don\u2019t understand at all,<\/a> they should invest some sweat into improving how the government they run works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are New York City politicians so confident in their ability to micromanage the private sector when so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[148],"tags":[205,2872,7801,3427,836,2873,55,86334,553],"class_list":["post-192571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zohran-mamdani","tag-amazon","tag-city-council","tag-e-commerce","tag-editorial","tag-jobs","tag-julie-menin","tag-opinion","tag-teamsters","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117114234908168626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}