Posted by
rycK on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:17:01 PM
The Flight from
Tax Maggotry and Other Leftist Diseases: NYC Crashes but Federal Funds are On
the Way!
High taxes and
the government-sponsored social programs that
promote sloth, phony education projects, crime and
drug addiction seem to be the only solution to
addressing the evils of our society. Rather than enforce the Rule of Law in an
objective and impartial manner, now merely a euphemism for letting left-wing
constituents merrily do their drugs and crimes and such, the Rule is applied
only to those who are capitalists or that have committed crimes too heinous to
hide from the public. The tax basis is adjusted accordingly so that the felons
escape and the successful ‘pay their fair share’ for the mayhem and social
diseases to the benefit of Democrats in city governments. What a great scheme.
But, there is a
temporary tax revenue problem:
“New Yorkers are fleeing
the state and city in alarming numbers -- and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars,
a new study shows.
More than 1.5
million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to
the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest
out-of-state migration in the country.
The vast majority of
the migrants, 1.1 million, were former residents of New York City -- meaning one out of seven city
taxpayers moved out. “--Tax
refugees staging escape from New York By Andy Soltis Last Updated: 6:08 AM, October 27, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
The philosophy is clear here: inner cities cannot cope
with the burdens of crime, phony education
expenses, public housing and unemployment with normal taxation because they
have no way to rehabilitate or reform their constituents. In fact, many of their
constituents are ‘poverty imports’ for
the most part or self-styled welfare recipients who will not or cannot pay for
their own upkeep and thus are essentially parasites upon the working classes
who do pay excessive taxes. This is great politics!
This all works out very well in the political sense as
major cities have overwhelming populations of persons who are wholly dependent
upon their local liberal Democratic elected officials for money, food and drugs
along with free housing and medical care and cast their votes accordingly. As a
corollary, the city administration must look the other way on most crime and
blame their problems on capitalism or others and beg for alms from the state
government or the fed to keep the machine well greased.
Thus, the bigger cities are crime magnets and generate the
bulk of the murders and other crimes in our nation. Not to ignore the political
benefits of this situation, we can see that crime is a great benefit to the
cities as it provides jobs for police, narcotics enforcement, and emergency
room care.
For an investigational view
of what the left offers many citizens in terms of business, education, crime
and community we have only to study the top 10 cities in the US and inspect the crime statistics. There
is no question that liberals [and all are black left-liberals with the
exception of NYC where Bloomberg is at risk now] are fully in charge in these
places. They control the ‘education’ and politics of these cities. A review of
those who takes drugs is also instructive.
Clearly, crime and drug ingestion are not exactly proper attributes for success
in the halls of capitalism and employers are still, amazingly, allowed
to screen job applicants for drugs. This is a missed opportunity for the far
left: forcing business to employ 100% of their citizens by outlawing drug tests.
But, now, in a progressive new vector, California wants to legalize pot in its frantic effort to
grunt money from any source to pay for their warped progressive lifestyle. It
is interesting to compare NYC, California and Washington DC to see who has the poorest educational system in
the US. The same people who want to transform our society
to be more egalitarian are the very same
people who have shaped the 10 worse cities in the US [9 counting Washington D.
C.] in terms of debt, drug addiction, murder and taxes.
But, where, can we ask, is the political blunder
here?
“The average Manhattan
taxpayer who left
the state earned $93,264 a year. The average newcomer to Manhattan earned
only $72,726. [Emphasis is mine in all
quotes.]
That's a difference of $20,538, the highest for any
county in the state. Staten Island was second, with a $20,066 difference.”
Why not just raise taxes?? Does NYC really need
whites in office?
Taxes will continue to
soar in destitute cities like New York
as this is the ONLY mechanism available to the city fathers of places
like this and mirror-image cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago and
Baltimore. What is the penalty? If the
city or state goes broke, then what happens? Will the left-liberals in office
lose their jobs or will the drug rehabilitation shops close down? Will the
welfare checks stop spurting out as a heartfelt payment for the votes?
The proper plan for
liberals is to push taxes to unreasonable limits and force a catastrophe so
that federal funds can be connected to their city coffers by some umbilical
cord wired into the Fed balance sheet if possible. NYC is ‘too big to fail.’
Those who wantonly and egregiously flee from NYC’s taxes and crime may be
confidently ‘caught’ and ‘repatriated’ to the yawning tax pits if federal funds
are used to replace their tax returns in the cities. Thus the big salaries and big business
profits can be returned to the city fathers of New York City and all is well. Then, spending is the limit!
Double welfare payments! Double salaries for unions, teachers, police and
everybody else!
Obama is going to be their sugar daddy and they
know it.
Raise taxes and we will
all be rich as I learned all this from listening to my rain stick. Or,
maybe, just maybe, it is time for some undocumented
capitalism.
rycK [a 5th generation
Californian in exile]
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Admissions to Publicly Funded Substance Abuse Treatment
Programs, 2006
|
Percentage
of Admissions
|
Race/Ethnicity
|
Distribution by Race
|
Ratio: Admissions to Race
|
|
59.4
|
White
|
80
|
0.74
|
|
21.3
|
African-American
|
12.8
|
1.66
|
|
14.0
|
Hispanic Origin
|
7.0
|
2.00
|
|
2.3
|
American Indian or Alaska Native
|
|
Very high
|
|
1.0
|
Asian/Pacific Islander
|
|
|
|
2.0
|
Other
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ref : http://www.nida.nih.gov/InfoFacts/treatmenttrends.html
Ref on
Distribution: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0110384.html
2005 numbers There are later revisions on these numbers.
Note that more minorities by race are admitted to publicly funded substance
abuse programs than whites on a proportionality basis. By race, twice as many
blacks are admitted when compared to blacks.