This time over the city’s efforts to make commuters pay for the roads that they use. This follows repeated calls by Councilman Vallone to secede made :

“I think secession’s time has definitely come again,” Mr. Vallone, who spearheaded a similar push in 2003, told The New York Sun yesterday. “If not secession, somebody please tell me what other options we have if the state is going to continue to take billions from us and give us back pennies. Should we raise taxes some more? Should we cut services some more? Or should we consider seriously going out on our own?”…

“Not only is it about self-determination and self-rule, but it’s about fairness,” Mr. Vallone said. “It’s something we see every year in the budget. They take $11 billion from us and give us back a mere pittance and they make it seem like they’re doing us a favor to give that pittance back. Somehow they missed the point that that is New York City’s own tax money and we deserve it.”

With New Yorkers paying an average of $1,400 a year more to Albany than they recieve back, it’s no wonder that there are similar calls for secession in Long Island.

(H/T to the Freedom Democrats Blog)