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“Cuomo gets it on property taxes. Why don’t the rest of the Democrats?????”
Cuomo also bangs some chick who’s on a TV show about how to make SPAM more fancy.
Cuomo gets it on property taxes. Why don’t the rest of the Democrats?????
Right in more ways than one, dh.
“The landlord who is interposed in the fact pattern is morally questionable but can’t possibly be blamed for the state of the city’s rent controlled housing stock.”
He’s not being blamed for that. He’s being blamed for knowing what he was getting, knowing the laws and taking advantage of a lower price, and then complaining about it, and not maintaining the building according to law.
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just bumping dibs’ post of a news article with an undoubtedly right leaning view of unions
no one from Camden should be thinking they are in any position to dole out financial advice.
Christie Says N.J. Towns Face $825 Million Bill for Sick Pay
May 10 (Bloomberg) — New Jersey municipalities face more than $825 million of bills for unused sick and vacation days accumulated by their workers, said Governor Chris Christie, who called for an immediate end to awarding such payouts.
Under New Jersey law, employees in many of the state’s 566 municipalities can bank unused sick and vacation time, which they can cash in at retirement.
Christie vetoed Democratic-sponsored legislation in December that would have capped sick and vacation payouts at $15,000 for new workers. He wants to phase out the payouts altogether and force current employees to use banked time before taking new sick or vacation days.
The governor told residents that government workers call the payouts “boat checks†because they often use them to buy watercraft on retirement. “Sick leave is for when you’re sick –
– not for a boat,†he said.
Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt said Christie has failed to compromise on the issue.
“The governor is taking a my-way-or-the-highway approach to ending sick leave abuse,†Lampitt, a Camden Democrat, said in a statement. “Each and every day the governor chooses to play politics instead of negotiating real reform, the taxpayers lose.â€
Pamela…IT’S AN ABUSE, YOU SAID SO YOURSELF. DO YOU SEE HOW STUPID YOU SOUND??????
“I think the world is already saturated with Persian rugs of all sorts.”
But, do they match the drapes is the real question?
OK slopey, but this is like one of those hypotheticals in torts class where you identify all of the people who are wrongdoers.
The landlord who buys with eyes wide open etc. and doesn’t maintain the property is a wrongdoer I suppose, or at least morally questionable, but he didn’t cause the problem. The government did. The existence of rent control laws is the direct and proximate cause of the decay of rent controlled buildings, in tortspeak. The landlord who is interposed in the fact pattern is morally questionable but can’t possibly be blamed for the state of the city’s rent controlled housing stock.