Same thing in Florida. The I-4 corridor and South Florida/Miami area are 'bluer' than the smaller cities and rural areas.
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Same thing in Florida. The I-4 corridor and South Florida/Miami area are 'bluer' than the smaller cities and rural areas.
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Late to the thread, but if something like that passed in my State, I would organize a protest where every protester got as close to the capital building as possible and every time a legislator walked by everyone would light a cigarette and blow the smoke at them and yell "Thanks for making me smoke again!" That would be some big stinky clouds.
Yeah, no. That is wildly untrue. Pretty much the exact reverse of what really happens re: public funds per capita in urban vs. rural areas. The places in this country that receive the most government money per capita in one way or another are almost all rural.
New York City is expensive, yes. It's also home to more than 2 million people. It also happens to be wildly more economically productive than any other place in the state, by miles. We fund the rest of the state, not the other way around.
Let upstate secede. They'll soon wonder why they didn't look at the stats about which way money really flows.
This is a stupid bill, with zero reason to worry about it until it shows some actual sign of life, which it hasn't in years. There's ....ty legislation stalled in committee all the time, there's currently no reason to expect this one to escape the pack.
If the City didn't suppress the rest of the state, we could be productive too.
Of course! They want people addicted to cigarettes and people using products from Big Tobacco.
They get exorbitant taxes from the addicted, AND big Tobacco has to keep paying the state $billions so the prostitutes in New York House and Senate can waste money to buy votes.
New York taxed the so called rich until they fled the state for low tax states like Texas, Tennessee, Florida, and others.
California is on the same downward skid.
Awhile back The Golfer Phil Mickelson toyed with leaving California for Texas.
If he had he would have saved $millions in state, city, and local taxes. If memory serves he said that Federal, state, city taxes took 52% of every dollar he made.
But the brain dead representatives still want him to pay his fair share..
I think 52% taxes is his fair share and then some.
I'm all for that, let them keep the NY name and we can call our new state 'Upstate'
It is things like this that make me even happier that I no longer have to depend on anyone to make my e-liquid for me. Fortunately the stoopid (yes, I know it is spelled wrong) reg that passed behind closed doors here in Arkansas hasn't affected me but I know it is hurting others and it just isn't right !!!!!!!!! Hopefully this one will stay in the un-passed pile of stoopid regs.
That is why I have always been on the drum beat of switch to RDAs or RTAs learn to build and learn to DIY juice.
Get off their backside and PREPARE BEFORE THE GOVT DOES SOMETHING STUPID.
I HAVE PREPARED AND MADE THE LEGISLATION IRRELEVANT TO MY LIFE!
the cost of preparing vus lower now than it will be later, and the investment of a few $hundred spent strategically will keep you in vape gear, nicotine, mods that will last years until the people come to their senses and vote out the liberals that are speeding the state and federal Government to financial collapse.
Yep. People will either prepare and make legislation irrelevant or wish they had.
I also have about 2 years of food stockpiled and put in buried caches around the Catalina foothills including RTAs, wire but no nic. Thank God I got down to zero nic, and stockpiled of certain things I cannot talk about
Haunted. Apparently you were never raised on a farm. I was.
There is a reason why they use burros and mules instead of horses. A burro or mule is about 5-10 times as sure footed than a horse. I have ridden both horses and mules. I would trust to ride va burro or mule to the bottom blindfolded with confidence I would get there alive. I would walk down before I rode a horse.
Horses are not sure footed and they are easily frightened.
Uh. The quote is "Resistance is irrelevant."
I'm a Treker since the original series, and 20 years ago moderated the Star Trek forum on Intelec network and the PC Security forums on six different networks and hosted round tables of AntiVirus developers on AOL so users could get facts instead of hyperbole.
We should call the Upstate one 'New York' and just call the Downstate one 'York'.
Since you Like to split hairs for no apparent reason, it's not a quote or I would have included quotation marks " ".
It's called paraphrasing.
Apparently you haven't read many of haunted's post.
It's a joke, that you apparently didn't get.
Home to 2 million ? Brooklyn alone were you apparently reside has more than 2 million people in residence. NYC has over 8 million residents. You are correct though about more tax dollars going out than coming back in. Even more lopsided if you include the suburban ( Westchester, Nassau, Rockland and Suffolk counties ) residents, a large percentage of whom work in NYC.
In fiscal 2010, the Upstate region generated less than 28 percent of the state’s taxes and other non-federal revenues (including SUNY tuition, lottery and other gambling profits, motor vehicle fees and so on). By contrast, Upstate received a much larger share of state-funded expenditures, 42 percent.
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Let's not forget northern NJ which has a ton of people who only live there to commute into the city. I thought about moving there myself but I can't bare to pay that 15 dollar toll every time you cross the Bayonne or the Goethals bridge, screw that. Thankfully the Staten Island ferry is still free, I remember when they tried to tax that too.
Yeah, my brain kicked out the stat for Manhattan, or rather what Manhattan's occupancy expands to during the work day. *edit* Geez, even that's outdated now. Apparently these day it doubles to more than 3 million during the workday.
But anyway, regardless, point stands.
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But how much of the money that rural areas receive go to farm and agri subsidies that ultimately lead back to feeding the masses in cities. I have almost zero knowledge on the matter but I would guess it's an enormous portion.
In my neighborhood they have killed our traditional industries via the Adirondack Park Agency, but use taxes to encourage the tourist trade.
My home has become their playground.
My home has become their playground.
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