De Blasio gets it... (New York, Albany: middle-class, public schools, taxi)
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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.
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.
I don't believe Albany will increase the tax rates on the rich. But the question is, why are common working class and middle class people so fearful of even broaching this topic?
As a New Yorker myself who expresses the same ideas as Bill de Blasio on this numerous times, now I have to make a a bit of a back track. How can the city reduce income ineqality which takes years for working class and middle class folks to grow their wealth. But also public schools need to improve along with job creation.
I don't believe Albany will increase the tax rates on the rich. But the question is, why are common working class and middle class people so fearful of even broaching this topic?
working middle class vs the poor and the rich = no contest.
I don't believe Albany will increase the tax rates on the rich. But the question is, why are common working class and middle class people so fearful of even broaching this topic?
Taxing the very rich more might encourage some of the tax base to move, negating much of the extra revenue.
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