MTA chairman defends payroll tax to Westchester group
Photo credit: Angela Gaul | A southbound train pulls into the New Rochelle Metro-North station. (March 27, 2012)
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MTA chairman and CEO Joseph Lhota entered hostile territory Friday, trying to convince a group of Westchester business leaders that a controversial tax on their payroll will be good for their bottom line in the long run.
Lhota cautioned that if a judge's ruling declaring the Payroll Mobility Tax unconstitutional is allowed to stand, a gaping $1.8 billion hole will be left in the MTA budget...
