New York Daily News | Aug 8, 2020 | News | 5
Mayor de Blasio couldn’t care less if wealthy people leave the city for good because of the coronavirus pandemic, telling reporters on Friday that he won’t bend over backward for the one percent to return to NYC. In a briefing from City Hall, de Blasio for a second day in a row sneered at Gov. Cuomo’s suggestion that the Big Apple’s ballooning deficit can only be bridged if rich people who fled at the outset of the pandemic come back and start paying taxes again.
“Let’s focus on working people. Let’s focus on the millions upon millions of people who are the backbone of New York City,” de Blasio said. “I am not going to beg anybody to live in the greatest city in the world.”
De Blasio also reiterated his demand for taxing wealthy New Yorkers at a higher rate and said the most “fair” period in American history was in the high-taxed aftermath of World War II........To Read More....
My Take - Is there anything more telling as to how clueless this man is? He wants to “ focus on working people. Let’s focus on the millions upon millions of people who are the backbone of New York City.” That's a great sound bite but what's that mean? It means he has no idea how an economy functions. That "backbone" relies on the wealthy to create and maintain the jobs that allow them to live in NYC. For that matter, to want to stay in NYC. It isn't just the wealthy who are leaving. It's the "backbone" also.
But it really matters not whether he begs the rich or ignores the rich. NYC, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc. are done. They will never recover from this latest perfect storm of civil disobedience and coronavirus tyranny. People are working from home now, and businesses are realizing they don't need to be in a major metropolitan center to do business. The internet has changed that, and now they're seeing just how true that is. To meet the current crisis these companies are implementing practices in their businesses that will ignore these large metropolitan political swamps with high taxes, high rents, poor and expensive parking, and unnecessary travel to those locations.
They're now toast! The only thing left would be the value of the cultural offerings, and the insurrection has ended that.
Mayor de Blasio couldn’t care less if wealthy people leave the city for good because of the coronavirus pandemic, telling reporters on Friday that he won’t bend over backward for the one percent to return to NYC. In a briefing from City Hall, de Blasio for a second day in a row sneered at Gov. Cuomo’s suggestion that the Big Apple’s ballooning deficit can only be bridged if rich people who fled at the outset of the pandemic come back and start paying taxes again.
“Let’s focus on working people. Let’s focus on the millions upon millions of people who are the backbone of New York City,” de Blasio said. “I am not going to beg anybody to live in the greatest city in the world.”
De Blasio also reiterated his demand for taxing wealthy New Yorkers at a higher rate and said the most “fair” period in American history was in the high-taxed aftermath of World War II........To Read More....
My Take - Is there anything more telling as to how clueless this man is? He wants to “ focus on working people. Let’s focus on the millions upon millions of people who are the backbone of New York City.” That's a great sound bite but what's that mean? It means he has no idea how an economy functions. That "backbone" relies on the wealthy to create and maintain the jobs that allow them to live in NYC. For that matter, to want to stay in NYC. It isn't just the wealthy who are leaving. It's the "backbone" also.
But it really matters not whether he begs the rich or ignores the rich. NYC, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc. are done. They will never recover from this latest perfect storm of civil disobedience and coronavirus tyranny. People are working from home now, and businesses are realizing they don't need to be in a major metropolitan center to do business. The internet has changed that, and now they're seeing just how true that is. To meet the current crisis these companies are implementing practices in their businesses that will ignore these large metropolitan political swamps with high taxes, high rents, poor and expensive parking, and unnecessary travel to those locations.
They're now toast! The only thing left would be the value of the cultural offerings, and the insurrection has ended that.
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