Bloomberg's Congestion Pricing - Selling Big Brother to the Masses

It's not a plan to install thousand of surveillance cameras and add a permanent "paper please" police presence downtown - it's a Green plan to fight air pollution! You could sell shit-on-a-stick to New Yorkers if you charged a premium, made them wait in line, and told them the carbon would be offset.

The supporters have various experts they trot out for the media to confirm that, "YES, people respond to incentives." Adding a police enforced cost for something that was previously free, means that people will do it less frequently. That's Econ 101, not proof the plan is a good idea.