New Taxes!
Get a whiff of this. The WSJ has written that Mayor Bloomberg is thinking of proposing for private residences a charge for garbage collection. But Mayor Bloomberg, this service is already paid for now by our taxes. I wonder if the Mayor is thinking of setting up an appointed Garbage Board to set rates. This…
Get a whiff of this. The WSJ has written that Mayor Bloomberg is thinking of proposing for private residences a charge for garbage collection. But Mayor Bloomberg, this service is already paid for now by our taxes. I wonder if the Mayor is thinking of setting up an appointed Garbage Board to set rates. This way politicians don’t have to dirty their hands when rates are increased. This will probably work in the same way our water and sewer rates are reasonably set by the Water Board, with annual double digit increases. What are they going to do when someone doesn’t pay? Cut off their garbage collection. Mayor Bloomberg keep busy. Go paint another line in the street!
“Free market”! Darwinism! No, I am espousing government that doesn’t spend more than it has; and doesn’t tax so much that people vote with their feet and leave. And government that isn’t run by smug detached-from-reality morons (be it in DC, Albany, or NYC).
Newsflash: beyond the minimal, basic level, government raises the price of everything, and makes it harder for you and I to reproduce, live, pay for college, and retire. Government is the problem, not the solution.
And Bloomberg is a moron. Morons sometimes find nuts, too.
He may be a moron, but he has more money than you, and so in the socio-economic model you are espousing (free market, economic Darwinism), he wins. He gets to reproduce. The rest of us must simply wither away, pensionless.
Now in *my* socialist meritocratic utopia, his being a moron would really *mean* something.
Mayor Bloomberg is a nominal Republican. He is not a fiscal conservative. Similarly, virtually everyone claiming they are a Democrat these days is a social-democract a la European parties.
If Bloomberg was a Republican, he would not now be an independent. Political principles matter, not labels. Bloomberg is what a liberal used to be; then again, he supports the mosque as Ground Zero, and surmised that the Times Square Bomber might be a healthcare protester and/or a Tea Party adherent. So he is also a moron.
Mayor Bloomberg was elected mayor as a Republican each time he ran. And you can look it up! He was a registered Democrat before he switched party affiliations and ran as a Republican. Let’s get the facts right.
Unions in 2010 = greed, protected incompetence, and fiscal ruin for all.
Actually, Bloomberg isn’t a Republican, so no R Mayor since 1994; moreover, the sea of Democrats in City and State government limits what even a conservative mayor (such as Rudy; not Bloomberg) can do.
Better auditions for Fox News than the socialist and fascist regimes taking us over a cliff.
Excuse me. Is this where the auditions to Fox News held?
So now we get to define ‘essential’ services. And this is where these conversations tend to go to pieces.
And thanks for the fact-check kidbklyn. Don’t know what could have made it seem like couch was having a knee-jerk reaction…
Unions = defined pension plans, good heath benefits, decent hours and vacations, etc. Yeah, lets get rid of all that. Bring back the 60 work hour week. Don’t you want a job just like that.