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NY Post: MAYOR RIPS TAXI FARE HIKE

By DAVID SEIFMAN and TOM NAMAKO
April 24, 2009

Might want to check that water bill.

Mayor Bloomberg, exasperated about an MTA bailout plan that would tax taxi rides $1, pondered whether Big Apple residents' bathroom activities might get taxed next.

"They could charge $1 every time you take a shower. Who knows? I don't know how they collect it. The state legislature can do anything they want," Bloomberg quipped on WOR Newstalk radio today...

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