Pol rally: Gotta play fare, Blaz

THE QUEST for city-funded half-price MetroCards, known as Fair Fares, isn’t quite shaping up to be a fair fight.

Mayor de Blasio — who has resisted including the measure in his budget — was massively outnumbered by an army of city elected officials, district attorneys and labor leaders who called on him to pony up $212 million for it in his executive budget.

The show-of-force rally came a day after City Council Speaker Corey Johnson included the program, which could help 800,000 New Yorkers at or below the poverty line, in the Council’s response to the mayor’s budget proposal.

The mayor (inset) — who has funded plenty of major new initiatives without identifying a new revenue source for them — has insisted the discounted swipes should be paid for by a state-enacted tax on the wealthiest New York City residents, which would also fund the subway system. The so-called millionaires’ tax proposal is considered dead on arrival in Albany. Among those calling for the funding were the city’s other two citywide elected officials, Public Advocate Letitia James and Controller Scott Stringer.