Meh, tax em anyways.
I’m not in favor of taxing the rich give them free baskets instead
It doesn’t solve the underlying problem of wealth disparity. You can keep chopping day after day, year after year, but the inevitable solution is going to be: take the wealth and redistribute it. AKA Taxes.
If you give them all free baskets for their heads long enough you will be fine taxes require a government those don’t seem to be doing good at this
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Not having a government leads directly into a violent government
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Many countries do this task quite well.
Plenty of places have little or no government and no billionaires even with States actively trying to fight the idea. Government is only one way of organizing and not a very good or egalitarian one
If you “organize” a nation full of people to decide on the “rules”, then that is “government” writing the “laws”.
So the IEEE and web consortium unicode and Wikipedia foundation are governments.
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when I’m Governor, the stealing stops. I’ll cut your taxes, slash your utility bills in half, and put your hard-earned money back where it belongs – in your pocket, not Mamdani’s."
Exactly what Trump said. Exactly what every MAGA/Republican has said for 50 years. And yet, here we are, and none of those promises have EVER happened for anyone but the very wealthy.
Those are big numbers to balance. Wishing the best they come true in 6-12 months.
Why didn’t he cut any of NYPD’s draining (and harmful) budget. Wtf?
Police have a lot of leverage power.
Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”
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aaaaaaand they’ll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not… which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.
Wasn’t Mamdani saying the whole campaign that he promised to keep the NYPD budget in return for the NYPD refocusing on violent crime and the NYPD leadership staying? If he pissed off the entire NYPD things would probably be more expensive.
“If 1% of your population is paying 45% of your tax revenue…” then they should be turned into paste. What world does this
guybillionaire live in?Ah yes, everybody knows that New York has the ability to hand out capital punishment based on what you out on your tax return. Stupid liberal Mamdani, how did he not do this! /s
One where the president says he should be “cherished”
He’s been coddled by cronies and yes-men for so long that he’s forgotten how to speak without expecting ot hear applause.
Katie Hochul gave him billions?
In exchange for taxing billionaire’s second homes in the city, it seems
Could you not find a source for this other than CBS News?
“we balanced the budget without needing to raise municipal taxes… by raising your state taxes”
You do realize he is the mayor and not the governor. Thus he cannot raise state taxes.
Wow that’s embarrassing for bjorney
Truly a great defeat
Seriously a big L for bjorney. Will they ever post again?
Yes I’m aware, it was literally a sarcastic comment, not a brain-dead take.
When the state tax coffers are covering a 4 billion dollar municipal deficit, and the state coffers are disproportionately funded by NYC residents, it’s just a case of the left hand stealing from the right pocket. There is still a 4 billion dollar deficit, it’s just being paid for by either a different tax revenue stream, or budget cuts to a different set of services
Yes they exchanged a tax that increases per square foot for a tax that increases based on income.
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Every time I see comments like the one you replied to, this comes to mind:
The reality of some people’s situation is so far removed from their understanding they’re basically cheering or jeering for the sake of mob mentality and not much else.
Someone in another thread recommended the book “dying of whiteness” and it’s absolutely horrifying. We all know conservatives vote against their self interests. Well, they know too. Many of them know. They’re happy to die for their beliefs if it means no {slur} gets anything nice.
This. I grew up in a MAGA incubator (aka private Christian school). These people literally believe that the world is going to end. The ONLY skin they have in the game of life is their own salvation. Many of them are in fact NOT Christians, and worship a god that forgives only them while judging everyone else.
We give these people power and responsibility at our own peril.
If the world is going to end, why do they give a flying fuck about taxes?
Invisible boogeyman in the sky
Yes that is indeed generally the state of things. It used to be the general american delusion was temporarily embarrassed millionaire; now it seems so much worse, and diversified. How do you break a population of that? Guh what a fuckin mess.
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