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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Peter King | Former Congressman | 07-30-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2828 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Former Congressman Peter King calls in to talk about the controversial proposal to reintroduce the commuter tax to offset New York City's budget deficit and lament the mismanagement and wasteful spending in the city. King criticizes the impact of congestion pricing on small businesses, especially in Manhattan, and voices concerns about progressive policies that he believes harm taxpayers and small communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

77 Wab, ABC.

0:02.9

This is sit in friends in the morning.

0:05.7

Do we have Peter King on?

0:09.6

Peter King is calling in.

0:12.0

I'm here.

0:13.0

Peter, Congressman King, it's always good.

0:16.5

You're on three days in a row, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and you're getting things off your chest. You know, when you get things off your chest, you're a lot healthier. I agree with that. It's great talking with you guys. All of us get a lot out. We really speak our mind, and that's the beauty of being on with John and Curtis. I'll tell you. Even Curtis,

0:37.9

see Curtis, I'm going to a stage of my life. I'm saying all these good things about you. Just get that high school diploma. And I really say something good about it. Well, you've been a lobby. I've got to get a college diploma someday. I might do better. Exactly. By the way, Peter King, we had a great discussion with county executive Bruce Blakeman,

0:36.5

who was running for re-election,

0:38.1

about they want to reimpose the commuter. Peter King, we had a great discussion with county executive Bruce Blakeman, who was running for

0:54.3

re-election, about they want to reimpose the commuter tax of an Albany to offset what is a

1:02.1

horrible budget in New York City. They don't, they budgeted for money we don't have in New York City.

1:09.1

It's an election year budget.

1:14.2

But they want to offset it by having a commuter tax.

1:16.3

You remember what that was like, don't you?

1:22.3

I remember that whole thing with Ed Koch and Shelley Silver and Mike Bloomberg later on. And I think Senator Bill Lockett was involved.

1:25.1

And, oh, God, that was a great win for downstate New York,

1:30.5

for the suburbs, for Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester.

1:34.5

But really, all we did was protect our sovereignty and keep things equal.

1:40.5

To me, you can't have New York City living off the hardworking taxpayers in their own Suffolk County.

1:47.0

Well, remember, it was $350 million in the Treasury of New York City.

1:51.3

Rudy was mayor.

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