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-socialism
-OVER taxation
-OVER regulation across the board for businesses
-easier access & easier to qualify for "social" programs at the expense of higher earning people
-gives in to the labor unions' demands
-will give sweetheart contract deals to the unions and thus further contribute to the unsustainable pension system
-make NYC less safer with anti-police policies (stop & frisk)
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Because many of the the working and middle-classs stiffs are still under the erroneous assumption that one day they will be rich too.
Really? What are your goals and what are you striving for? Most people strive for more money, and if you don't, that's fine, it's your choice, but don't tax the people that work hard because you don't feel like working hard.
My problem is that the "rich" are the target, but the arrow falls short and hits the middle class. People like my parents who own property due to their hard work, long hours, SAVING, while working middle class jobs, and being penalized over it. Trust me, if they were able to do it, you can too, it's all about choices and what you want. Do you live for today, or for the future. It sounds like you clearly live for today.
So many people on here are just jealous of the rich. I guess they are just focusing their anger and blaming the rich for their own poor personal financial decisions and lack of motivation. It can't be their fault. It must be the rich putting them down.
So many people on here are just jealous of the rich. I guess they are just focusing their anger and blaming the rich for their own poor personal financial decisions and lack of motivation. It can't be their fault. It must be the rich putting them down.
Not really, I'd assume they would be happy to be comfortably middle-class. But when an ever increasing share of income and wealth (nationwide, but even more so in NYC) goes to a wealthy few, it does seem recent times have been disportionately favoring the wealthy. Of course, there's always been rich people, but why the higher income inequality? Is it because the wealthy have started working much harder? Most of the population except the wealthiest has seen little income gain in the last few decades and in NYC ever-increasing COL, mainly in housing.
Like capitalism only a very few can make it big or to the top.
Don't forget that LOSERS also serve a role in capitalism. The loser/winner mentality is what drives americans. Which one will you be ?
We aren't supposed to be happy by just living. Instead we medicate with drugs fast food and impulse shopping if we don't succeed.
How can one claim to be a winner if there is no one beneath him ?
Time to get over that mentality...we don't have the industry or jobs to keep that philosophy going forward. Frightening to think about it...but thats what happens when you give your country away for $1.
De Blasio seems to understand that the rich need to pay their share, but I'm amazed that a number of working class and middle class people are fearful of taxing the rich. Do they not understand that the wealthy have increased their incomes substantially during the "great recession," while the average middle class family has seen a reduction in overall net-worth.
Why are working class and middle class NYC residents so fearful to hold the rich accountable?
The top 1% earn 33% of the income and pay 40% of the income taxes. Factor that into your equation.
Also factor in that those rich people who employ folks (I am not talking about the widows and trust fund kids), can generate incomes in what ever jurisdiction that they wish. And indeed there is wnough evidence to show that certain mid level categories of jobs have been shifted from NYC to other parts of the country.
You operate with a notion that you re entitled to a job. You will soon find out that people find work where jobs exist. And that corporations have an obligation to share holders and so will locate where their costs are lowest, all other things being equal. NYC is a high cost and high tax location. Increasingly only the highest paid jobs are available, alongside the low paid jobs to service their needs.
Don't get me wrong, I love de Blasio's stance on ending stop and frisk, and I like his other ideas too. But make no mistake, we have big budget problems coming to NYC no matter who the mayor is going to be.
Dirty little secret that Bloomberg doesnt want p[eople to know. He has drastically reduced S&F in the last few months to levels that even de Blasio mightnt have a problem with. Bloomberg just doesnt want people to know, because then they will question his claim that crime is also going down, despite his screams that quota based S&F is needed to keep crime low.
Exactly how they think. Does anyone care about DeBlasio's connection to Bertha Lewis of ACORN fame? The Tides Foundation?
George Soros money? Working Family Party? Do people realize what they are voting for??? Can you say Marxism? Wowwww...
Did any one read the latest Crains where developers were boasting about how they loved him as Councilman (note his support for Atlantic Yards), and how he is quietly chatting with them now.
De Blasio pandered to the left a sthey turn out in the primaries. I suspect they will be very upset with him by next year...operating on the assumption that Lhota stands no chance to of winning.
Exactly. NYC is in deep sh** if De Blasio becomes mayor. De Blasio is an extreme radical liberal. Just the fact that he has connections to ACORN should tell you the whole story and sum up what his Mayoral policies will be if he becomes mayor. Brace yourself NYC for DeBlasio's progressive liberal agenda!
Dont worry. de Blasio is a politician and even in the primaries he raised over $300k from developers. You know that he will not anger them to the point where they ensure that he is a one term mayor.
He will attempt to tax the rich. Will fail and blame Albany. After that its back to the usual.
The top 1% earn 33% of the income and pay 40% of the income taxes. Factor that into your equation.
Also factor in that those rich people who employ folks (I am not talking about the widows and trust fund kids), can generate incomes in what ever jurisdiction that they wish. And indeed there is wnough evidence to show that certain mid level categories of jobs have been shifted from NYC to other parts of the country.
You operate with a notion that you re entitled to a job. You will soon find out that people find work where jobs exist. And that corporations have an obligation to share holders and so will locate where their costs are lowest, all other things being equal. NYC is a high cost and high tax location. Increasingly only the highest paid jobs are available, alongside the low paid jobs to service their needs.
Until that system collapses. Low wages don't cut it long term in NYC unless you are in NYCHA, have Section 8, etc. Ooops, all that's being cut as well.
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