The Bully (The Legislature) stole your (City) lunch money (10% GET skim). The Bully is now blocking the bridge (GET surcharge extension) on your way home. You can ask for your lunch money back or ask the bully to let you cross the bridge. If you ask for both the bully will pummel you. You ask to cross the bridge. When you get home you tell your Mom (voters) the bully stole your lunch money. When your mom confronts the bully, the bully tells her you failed to ask for your lunch money back. That is how things went down in 2015.