Should Long Island become an independent state from New York (Nassau: salons, school)
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No. Brooklyn & Queens have no reason to leave the umbrella of NYC. Nassau & Suffolk are economically unsustainable on their own. There is no economic engine here; big box stores and nail salons won't do it. They rely on Manhattan for business and tax revenue, and the LIRR that so many use to access Manhattan is a NYS public authority. The new state would have to subsidize service and infrastructure, like CT does for their portion of Metro-North territory. The local governments with their bllated payrolls are unsustainable without state grants or increased taxes. Seeing how they give out business tax breaks like candy, tha falls more and more to the homeowners.
It's a silly idea, for among other things sheer geographical reality: establishing a state border between whatever version of "Long Island" you wish and (1) the mainland to which it has no other built infrastructure connection, and (2) the economic engine of Manhattan on which LI is heavily dependent and derivative would be delusionally self-harming. LI is a geographical (and arguably social) dead end that needs more, not less, connection to the mainland.
We would be great as a state. We don’t have the economic resources to sustain. So the feds would be forced to financially support us! with the rite state Gov we could just claim poverty lower our taxes and feed of the feds $$.
With all the property taxes we pay it’s still not enough ??
73 percent of my tax is school tax unfortunately. School spending needs to be controlled
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