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Originally Posted by MJinsouthernCO
It is because of the unauthorized workers in NYC. They take jobs, they invade business sectors, they depress the wages of legal citizens. They force rents to go up for legal citizens. They overcrowded everything.
Unauthorized people are a total economic poison pill. They are the #1 top reason New Yorkers struggle to pay for everything today. If you removed all of the unauthorized people the US economy would be restored rapidly.
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Either you don't live here, or just don't have a clue.
NYC and metro area for that matter has long been a high cost of living (HCL) place. Every GD thing that is sold, built or otherwise done here cost more than it would elsewhere, and little of this has to with illegals.
Main reasons stem from fact NYS/NYC are welfare states. Hugh amounts of taxes, fees, and surcharges are extracted from businesses and persons to be redistributed towards the "poor".
NYC's housing system has been corrupted by rent regulation laws for > 60 years. This among other things means there is an imbalance. With > 60% of NYC rental households falling under various forms of regulation (RC, RS, NYCHA, vouchers/subsidies, etc..) market rate households pay more to offset losses elsewhere.
None of this even begins to touch state and local civil service and other unions who have generous contracts and pension benefits. At state, local and public authority levels there is incredible waste, abuse, and poor management, along with inefficacy. What some would call streamlining services others (mainly unions and supporters) call making people unemployed, so nothing really happens head count wise.
It's simple Economics 101; goods are either elastic or inelastic. Where people cannot substitute one for another easily or cheaply, they must pay higher cost. If they can then prices drop or other action happens because vendor of goods or service provider has competition.
Rest of it is what people have long known for decades; huge subset of residents simply cannot afford to live in NYC. For whatever reasons ranging from educational level, skill sets, etc.. they never will earn enough money.
In Europe and parts of Asia this problem was long solved. Fast, safe, and efficient rail networks allow people to commute into urban areas who live further away where housing and other costs are lower.
At some point NYC like much of downstate became locked in a vicious cycle; extract ever more money from anyone who can pay, to give to those moaning they are busted and broke. At some point the former say "eff it" and move, but just what that number is varies.
Andrew Cuomo understood this which is why he tried to balance tax/fee/surcharge hikes. That was one reason he had to go; so AG and rest of democrats cooked up that sexual harassment scam. Cuomo stood in way of what liberal, socialist, progressive democrats wanted to do; now with him gone they hope to practice wealth redistribution on a vast scale.
Do illegals depress wages? Sure for some sectors no doubt about that; but other areas it's a wash. How many young or even older white people to you see out in all sorts of weather on bikes delivering food?
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