What kind of people raise taxes on people living in literal agony? Democrats.
FPM:In the movie Escape From New York, the island of Manhattan was walled off and mined. For its fortieth anniversary, New York City will try to recreate its plot by walling off parts of Manhattan with toll booths. The walls of toll booths to impose congestion pricing on the locals will fulfill the dream of former Mayor Bloomberg whose wildest ideas now seem downright tame to the new Dem radicals.
You could try to bypass the toll booths along 61st Street by taking an Uber, but good luck.
New York City has also been leading a crackdown on ridesharing on behalf of taxi drivers who began committing suicide because they were no longer able to overcharge, rip off and rob tourists. Uber will be capped, taxed and pushed out of the city along with all the other cars to encourage people to use public transportation. Unfortunately, public transportation doesn’t work anymore.
You can still ride a bike, if you don’t mind suffering bruises, bumps and skull fractures.
The New York City subway is failing badly. To quote the New York Times, “Century-old tunnels and track routes are crumbling… Just 65 percent of weekday trains reach their destinations on time, the lowest rate since the transit crisis of the 1970s”. Cars are being taxed to help fund this collapsing system. But the problem isn’t a lack of money: the money is being diverted by unions and political sweetheart deals.
Raising taxes doesn’t fix corruption. It worsens it.
Record numbers of New Yorkers are fleeing the Democrat disasters of the city and the state. But escaping New York by renting a car will also be more challenging because the state budget also includes a new tax on car rentals. And don’t even think of trying to fly out of one of New York’s terrible airports.
Walling off parts of Manhattan behind toll booths will make food deliveries much more expensive. And so, the disastrous state budget deal also bans plastic bags to make shopping for food equally miserable whether you do delivery or go to the supermarket. And don’t imagine for a moment that asking for paper will get you a pass. Paper bags will also be taxed because going to the supermarket is a crime.
Unlike Snake Plissken, once you escape from New York, your troubles will just be getting started. If you leave any property behind, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance will pore through your cellphone records, stalk your Facebook feed, stop off at your dentist’s office, and even check your fridge to prove that you still live in the Big Apple, and should be paying Governor Cuomo’s new salary.
But for those New Yorkers who stay behind, life keeps getting worse.
“This budget is probably the strongest progressive statement that we’ve made,” Governor Cuomo declared, referring to the bizarre mess that the Democrat controlled legislature pieced together at 2.30 AM for no reason except corruption and a burning hatred for everyone living above 61st Street.
While the state budget was terrible news for people, it was great news for criminals. more
The Founding Fathers would disown the People’s Democratic Republic of New Yawkistan.
Old and busted: too big to fail.
New hotness: too big to survive.
I would be tempted to believe the Left’s promises of socialistic paradise paid for by ever increasing taxes if the ones engineering it demonstrably lived the life of self-denying paupers dedicated to serve everyone else.
@ Bob M, They warned us that it was ours only if we can keep it….. Really going to need a new, free America in which to reside….. BUT it cannot all be in COLD country.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
It will all come crashing down some day. I just hope we have leadership that doesn’t believe in too big to fail.
why don’t they tax abortions?
Make it a graduated tax, based upon length of gestation, or term. They tax everything else, and with their new abortion laws, they will become a mecca for the late term procedures. They have a bunch of business guys- they should get on that.
If you live in ny, you should leave while you can.
They don’t sincerely want to stop the drug problem in ny. If they did, they would have no tolerance for it. That is how the end begins.
Maybe tax the syringes that they give to junkies- the syringes that litter the sidewalks and subway platforms. Tax dollars pay for those syringes, but they want to stop their use, but here, have a few for free- just toss them on the sidewalk when you are done, we have tax paid people who pick them up later.
Just quietly gather your things together and get out.
“The USA TODAY Network’s Albany Bureau last year found that $200 million pledged to address opioid addiction largely wasn’t new money.
In fact, the revenue from the opioid tax would largely supplant existing funds.
Rosenthal said she feared the proposal this year would have a similar outcome: The tax revenue would simply go into the state’s general fund and not be directed to its intended purpose.
“This new opioid tax in the state budget has morphed into a punitive proposal that will unfairly tax patients in pain,” she said.
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2019/03/25/new-york-wants-tax-opioid-makers-but-cost-may-hit-customers/3266780002/
Opinion: The subway system was working well until qualified, knowledgeable personnel were replaced by “diversity hires” who in general were unskilled, inept, and lazy. Maintaining a functioning network requires skill and knowledge.
“Now the white man is a bane, and they are getting people from everywhere else possible to work on that subway, paying outrageous wages to get them to do it, and they refuse to accept the fact that it all ran great before they gave preference to minorities and H1-B visa holders. Rather than suck it up and allow whites back into that system, they are going to bill people on the surface for trying to circumvent it, (the subway was the life of New York in the past, it was an absolute sparkling gem, even the parts that were 100 years old, age has nothing to do with it, MAINTENANCE DOES.)”
http://82.221.129.208/.wn8.html
I live in NY, maybe I need a go-fund me page to help me pay all the creative taxes the bleed from me. Oh wait they’d find it and collect taxes on that as income, and find a street person (bum) to give it to. Sscrewed…in NY…
OT, but ny sucks, so here is this also.
this has flown under the radar, and is what they want to do with all their tax money:
“NY Assembly: No free college tuition for Gold Star families”
“New York lawmakers on Tuesday refused to advance a bill that would have provided free college tuition to the families of military personnel from the state who were killed in the line of duty.”…
“The move comes a week after lawmakers passed a $175 billion state budget that included $27 million to provide college tuition aid for undocumented immigrants.”
https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2019/04/ny-assembly-no-free-college-tuition-for-gold-star-families.html#
Please remember this when they ask the federal government to bail them out or they want 30 billion to upgrade a tunnel to nj.
It’s NYC. Who gives a shit? NY Dems voted these turds into office, and now they can’t get the stink off. Too damn bad for them. Voting assholes into office tends to have consequences. Zero fu*ks given here.
Taking bot flack, Fur, you must be over some target.
Cause pain, then tax it…the Mafia has been doing this since it’s inception…what do you expect from fellow criminals?
I saw all I wanted to see of NYC in about an hour
and that was over 40 years ago. I never returned
nor would I ever want too.
It’s impossible to tell the difference between news and comedy now.
https://local.theonion.com/8-4-million-new-yorkers-suddenly-realize-new-york-city-1819571723
Need more ‘Snake Plissken’.
Kinda like Bruce Dickinson.
“More Cowbell!!”
Just nodding’ to the ‘Snake Plissken’ reference.
Extends to L.A. as well.
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