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Mongoose says I'm preaching to the choir. Mongoose and I appear to be in the minority when we say that you sold your souls for socialism. I harken back to the day when being a New Yorker represented a proud lineage of a can do attitude. Where we proudly knew that we were ahead of the world in technology and education.
But somewhere along the way we gave up and gave in to big government for social welfare. Where the pursuit of happiness and individual freedoms were forfeit. The second amendment was abolished and newsday fed you your news. Where politicians enjoy being sexual predators and tax evaders.
Big businesses have left, the private industry has shrunk, people are leaving en masse while becoming a sanctuary state for illegal aliens and and catering to and grooming current and future welfare recipients.
sounds harsh right?
but hey the beaches are gorgeous for the 3 months you get to use them.
We actually had a decent discussion about this on another website. Many NYers seem to be constrained by what they cannot do rather then what they can where in other states people don't have this mindset.
Two days ago I started this thread on the NY forum (where it most appropriate as this is a NYS issue, not just a LI one) and SilverBulletZ06 started this thread on the LI forum the same day, a few hours later. His was moved to the NY forum for reason given above.
There had been a good amount of discussion on both the existing threads.
New York is by far the least free state in the Union. It has also experienced the most interstate emigration of any state over the last decade. New York has by far the highest taxes in the country. Property, selective sales, individual income, and corporate-income taxes are particularly high. Spending on public welfare, hospitals, electric power, transit, employee retirement, and “other and unallocable” expenses are well above national norms. Only Alaska has more government debt as a percentage of the economy. On personal freedoms, gun laws are extremely restrictive, but marijuana laws are better than average, while tobacco laws are extremely strict, and cigarette taxes are the highest in the country. Motorists are highly regulated, and homeschool regulations are excessive, but nondrug victimless-crimes arrests are low. New York has the strictest health-insurance community-rating regulations in the country, which have wiped out the individual market. Mandated coverages are worse than average but were actually cut back substantially in 2007–2008. Eminent domain abuse is rampant and unchecked. Perversely (in our view), the state has stricter contribution limits for grassroots PACs than for corporate and union PACs. On the positive side, occupational licensing is somewhat better than average.
Despite panning NY, the person behind this study lives upstate.
Go figure.
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