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Right, sure. Because trusting a lunatic like Trump, who doesn't even pay his taxes and whose entire life is based on one shady, corrupt "deal" after another is really going to "drain the swamp" of corruption.
Tell me another one - I've got all day, lol.
Cult 45 to the last - laughable.
Trump’s paid more taxes in ONE single year than you will pay in your entire lifetime times 1000.
Shady corrupt deals? You think with all the hateful media and the antagonistic Left looking at everything he has done, that Trump would have lasted this long if he did any shady corrupt deals?
You sound like a 10 year old. Keep up the juvenile name calling.
You have to be kidding... did you miss The Bailout of 2008? Does "too big to fail" mean anything to you?
Also, if you think there's some mighty firewall between big business and the government, you're simply wrong. As a progressive, I think corrupt idiocy should be dealt with, yes, but I'm not partisan enough to pretend it is somehow limited to government.
Who told you banks could bail themselves out with taxpayer money without politicians (govt) giving it to them?
1. Introduce a congestion charge on vegicles entering the Manhattan area.
2. Increase Subway and Rail Fares - this would also help reduce over crowding.
3. Put in place a Land Value Capture tax whereby those landlords and land owners who benefit most in relation to new infrastructure projects in their area, pay a higher rate of tax over a period of time.
4. Sekk private investment in such schemes thereby limiting the tax payers role to a minimum.
5. Seek more money from the state and federal government.
It isn't a matter of "more funds". It's a matter of spending them wisely. Allot the win to the lowest cost contractor. Let labor rates be determined by the market, not union wage demands or "prevailing wage" rules. Award bonuses for work done ahead of schedule. Refuse to counter to the blackmail and extortion of union leaders. Fire the deadwood. Cut 70% of management. And yes, let fares be adjusted upwards as needed to cover operating costs, maintenance and expansion. You know, like private businesses do.
Give me a break. Unions and NYC are the lifeblood of the Democrat party, NYC didnt even vote for reagan when even California did.
Its always the same thing when there are unions and no competition, usually its public sector unions and corruption and huge pensions and the Democrat party that are killing states like Illinois,Connecticut, or the Democrats left wing equivalent in territories like puerto rico .
Oh please.
Where were you chiming in back when Jefferson County, Alabama had at the time the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the entire United States all due to a massive rip-off and corruption scandal?
A good 'ole morally pure red state like Alabama managed to turn a sewer project into over a $3,000,000,000 albatross. Even better than that was that Alabama hired John Young, at the behest of Mellon, to raise the sewer rates on tax payers to cover the over $500,000,000 the county defaulted on even though tax payers never wanted a new sewer nor even voted for one. The FBI even arrested 21 people -contractors, county commissioners, and county employees - for corruption and bribery in Alabama due to the whole Jefferson County fiasco. But oh, it gets even better: a fantastically red run state like Alabama held multiple legislative sessions that failed to take a single action to help the county restructure its debt, and as a result of their inability to govern themselves, the entire state and every municipality in Alabama was detrimentally affected and had to pay premiums to borrow on the bond market, costing tax payers even more money.
One of the worst bribery, corruption, waste of tax payer dollars in the history of the United States occurred in a red state like Alabama. Who's killing a red state like Alabama again?
Right-wingers view everything as the fault of "liberals" while missing the fact that incompetence can strike anywhere at any time: government or big business, right or left.
It is partisan ignorance on steroids. Here in liberal Broward county (FL) we just completed a billion dollar highway project which didn't cost taxpayer anything, and was completed super-fast.
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It isn't a matter of "more funds". It's a matter of spending them wisely. Allot the win to the lowest cost contractor. Let labor rates be determined by the market, not union wage demands or "prevailing wage" rules. Award bonuses for work done ahead of schedule. Refuse to counter to the blackmail and extortion of union leaders. Fire the deadwood. Cut 70% of management. And yes, let fares be adjusted upwards as needed to cover operating costs, maintenance and expansion. You know, like private businesses do.
I agree that projects should be managed properly including costs, however what I don't understand is why NYC is spending so little on infrastructure projects compared to many other major cities in the Far East or even Europe.
It's now got to a point where the Subway system was declared in an emergeny state by the Mayor in part of 2017 and much needed infrastructure projects are now being cancelled.
It isn't a matter of "more funds". It's a matter of spending them wisely. Allot the win to the lowest cost contractor. Let labor rates be determined by the market, not union wage demands or "prevailing wage" rules. Award bonuses for work done ahead of schedule. Refuse to counter to the blackmail and extortion of union leaders. Fire the deadwood. Cut 70% of management. And yes, let fares be adjusted upwards as needed to cover operating costs, maintenance and expansion. You know, like private businesses do.
I would prefer the thing built with private funds. Too often gov funded projects turns into a slush fund for politicians like the big dig was.
Where were you chiming in back when Jefferson County, Alabama had at the time the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the entire United States all due to a massive rip-off and corruption scandal?
A good 'ole morally pure red state like Alabama managed to turn a sewer project into over a $3,000,000,000 albatross. Even better than that was that Alabama hired John Young, at the behest of Mellon, to raise the sewer rates on tax payers to cover the over $500,000,000 the county defaulted on even though tax payers never wanted a new sewer nor even voted for one. The FBI even arrested 21 people -contractors, county commissioners, and county employees - for corruption and bribery in Alabama due to the whole Jefferson County fiasco. But oh, it gets even better: a fantastically red run state like Alabama held multiple legislative sessions that failed to take a single action to help the county restructure its debt, and as a result of their inability to govern themselves, the entire state and every municipality in Alabama was detrimentally affected and had to pay premiums to borrow on the bond market, costing tax payers even more money.
One of the worst bribery, corruption, waste of tax payer dollars in the history of the United States occurred in a red state like Alabama. Who's killing a red state like Alabama again?
Terrible example. This was another Democrat county, one of the few in Alabama, a black ruled democrat city Birmingham in total decline, black mayor and all Democrats in Alabama who went to jail for corruption and bribes over this mess.
The Democrat civil rights mayor of Birmingham took bribes for his rolexes and huge kickbacks, trips to nyc and huge shopping trips, Birmingham and Jefferson another Democrat union ****show along with Detroit,Illinois ,Connecticut,Puerto rico, on and on and on.
I hate the republican party with a passion but Democrats are basically synonymous with all this union ,pension , government and public work corruption. Total urban decay. Baltimore, St Louis, Memphis, New orleans, Milwaukee, New haven,Newark, Camden, Selma, Flint, Atlantic city, on and on and on
Democrat rule for generations
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