The NYS Business Council is touting its web page about our less than friendly surroundings for small business. It's called "Enough Already New York." On it there are all sorts of comments and suggestions about the stat.
When you look around there does seem to be increasing disdain for business as usual. The election of Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey shows more and more people, even in that horribly wasteful state, are saying Enough's Enough.
While many are rightly concerned about taxes and spending, only incremental change is possible simply because too many people have a stake in the present insolvent system.
For instance, the modest changes enacted last year to the NYS pension system came at a high cost in various concessions, carve-outs and exemptions to different public employee unions. We are now seeing another round of early retirement schemes being approved that add greatly to the long term obligations of the pension fund.
On this day of Tea Party activism and public awareness of the extent of taxation, we are on the verge of a crushing new round of state, federal, and local levies.
And just try to suggest the smallest of cuts as Governor Christie has done.....The screaming by those receiving the largesse and their MSM mouthpieces is staggering.
Just as for personal overspending a profound event like a bankruptcy is needed to scare you straight, it will take a wrenching calamity to do the same in government spending.
A day of reckoning ? Yes....But what ? and when ? That's anybody's guess.
Happy April 15 !
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It will never be "enough already" when half the population pays no income taxes at all, and so many have no limits on what they believe the government should spend to give stuff away. That is what we are facing right now. Half the population wouldn't give a shit what the government pays for anything, as they are not part of the contributing work force. Others believe in government so much they want a nanny state giving them everything they are "entitled" to. It has gotten to a point where the half that pays are about done caring. But that won't work. This entire joke will come down faster than a Great One promise.
A consumption tax is the answer. Make the first $30k tax free, then apply a straight sales tax. We cannot continue to discourage the only people left who actually work.
How about investing 10 million in more old buildings, seriously I wonder if the tea party activists knew this would they protest this???
Well they might not be happy about the coninuation of fixing up large numbers of falling down building so we can make them livable for subsidizid housing. Some of these places are very nice. Why buy or take care of your own house when you can move into these on someone esle's dime. They're nice, but they sure do cost.
One third of Watertown is now subsidized housing. Another third has tenents who rely on social services to pay the rent. The rest are owned by teachers and bidness owners who own pizza shops.
And were going to rehab the Stone St. Social Security office, to the tune of 2.1 million, NOW is building another house on TenEyck St. like those folks want a one story spec house there.
Go to the Neighbors of Watertown home office on Franklin Street. In their lobby area they have a great map showing their subsidizing housing. The scale of that map will amaze you. A huge portion of the City is rehabilitated housing, no subsidized. Beautiful stuff, but it leaves no question of why your taxes are so high. You have to take a look at that map.
Does NOW own the housing on the map?? Do they pay taxes?
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