Anonymous #3 1w

Capitalism seems to be working wonderfully for everyone :)

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Anonymous #4 1w

It does. Because it works. Just because you can’t afford anything doesn’t mean you should just get free shit. Get a job. And if ur not meant to live in the “greatest city in the world” then ur not meant to live in the “greatest city in the world”. It’s not a right Ur gonna tax the shit out of the rich and then they leave. Then what?

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Anonymous #3 1w

Ppl who’ve lived there for generations are getting priced out. The people who need to go are the corporate vultures who are so greedy they can’t even cough up another 1% in taxes. It’s insane

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Anonymous #2 1w

So what’s ur solution,

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Anonymous #3 1w

I say, help them pack their bags, and watch them go make some other city unlivable. We simply don’t want them here anymore. Getting them to leave is the point.

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Anonymous #2 1w

So then tax the shit out of THEM to pay for ur free groceries. Not the people living in penthouses

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Anonymous #3 1w

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of overlap. And the ppl living in penthouses on 57th tend to be oligarchs from foreign countries.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Honestly any outcome will fuck over the citizens. If u tax them like that then it’s gonna come out of the ppl who work for them’s paychecks and so on and so forth. Long story short, mamdani is just not cut out to be mayor and I HOPE TO GOD that I’m wrong. I hope to god that I’ve been wrong about him this entire time and that he legit fixes New York because that place is a fucking shithole. But based on debates, his policies, and his fucking resume, the dude is just not cut out for

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Anonymous #3 1w

Mayor. He won everyone over with a cheesy smile and a nice haircut and promises of free shit. But if that was so easy, then it would’ve already been done

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Anonymous #2 1w

Hi! As an actual New Yorker (born and raised) who moved because of the price and honestly all around better life style, the city didn’t go to shit until it consistently voted democrat. New Yorkers won’t wake up and realize that democrats actually don’t give a shit about people. I’m not one to march around and say I love trump but I also have a brain to realize that free shit and taxing the hell out of the people who are bringing business is not gonna solve anything

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Anonymous #3 1w

It’s not been done because it isn’t as profitable to politicians and corporations to make groceries and housing and whatnot more affordable for the average american.

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Anonymous #5 1w

We are asking ppl who make 7 figures to cough up another extra 30 or 40k a year. They are willing to uproot their entire lives over that, we have problems much much deeper than we thought. Greed like that cannot be allowed to hold this city hostage.

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Anonymous #2 1w

And actually all offense to this but the same people screaming about too much government overreach by trump and screaming about the shut down want the government to run every little thing so it really doesn’t make sense at all

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Anonymous #5 1w

Bingo

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Anonymous #4 1w

Ok so show me one time a socialist government worked

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Anonymous #2 1w

And if they don’t wanna cough it up, then they leave. It’s that simple

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Anonymous #5 1w

Honestly both sides are at fault for this shut down. Both sides have big ass egos and won’t move around. I think dems should just take the L on that one

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Anonymous #2 1w

I think asking other people who work for their money and built business and even if they are family business they still have to get up everyday to run said business to cough up money for people who think they should have everything handed to them because they made a poor choice to move to a city they know is expensive is actually greedy

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Anonymous #3 1w

The US has a long history of intervening in foreign affairs every time a “socialist” government has started to take form. It’s hardly been given a fair shot

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Anonymous #3 1w

Let’s be honest with ourselves. Anyone who’d pack up and leave over 40k who makes 7 figures is not bringing anything useful to the table in the first place. They’re not bringing business, they’re not paying commensurate with rent and inflation. They can go.

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Anonymous #2 1w

You all love to blame the big business when no one ever blames the gentrifying leftists who have pushed poc people out of neighborhoods and out priced them out of their homes it’s everyone else’s problem but the actual problem no one wants to talk about

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Anonymous #5 1w

I agree. I 100000% agree.

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Anonymous #4 1w

Greece literally went bankrupt. America had NOTHING to do with that. China is a shithole. American had NOTHING to do with that

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Anonymous #3 1w

They love to point fingers but never look at the actual issue. Half the neighborhoods that I knew were predominantly black growing up are now gay white hipster Instagram areas in Brooklyn which is fucking wild to me. It’s literally all their own fault

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Anonymous #2 1w

This coddling and protecting of ppl who’d hold ppl’s livelihoods hostage over negligible tax increases needs to be studied. Is it brainwashing? Is it Stockholm syndrome?

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Anonymous #5 1w

Frrrrr

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Anonymous #5 1w

Like you’re telling us it’s ppl who pay higher rent who are the gentrifiers, and not the ppl raising that rent in the first place? That’s wild bro. Anyone who’s lived in NY knows how landlords treat black ppl.

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Anonymous #7 1w

Nobody is coddling and protecting. But if ur relying on their taxes, then they are going to leave!

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Anonymous #7 1w

They raised the rent because they know you fuckers will pay for it. Stop demanding and the rent won’t go up

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Anonymous #7 1w

….u think someone who is living in a one bed no bath with no laundry is paying more than someone living in a penthouse? Now I know ur lying

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Anonymous #7 1w

Also nobody brought race into this

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Anonymous #3 1w

I did actually lol

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Anonymous #3 1w

Talking about how most of the poc neighborhoods I knew growing up are trashy white leftist Instagram spots

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Anonymous #6 1w

This would only apply if the federal government stayed out of it and let it either fail or succeed on its own. But the US government has never once allowed a socialist system to even begin without interference.

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Anonymous #3 1w

Actually yes, you guys did bring race into this. Saying “if you can’t afford it leave” and then blaming ppl who pay higher rent is wild fucking work bro. Get your stories straight.

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Anonymous #7 1w

Yeah? It actually is their fault because again they pay the rent so they’re gonna keep raising it until they see where people can’t afford anymore. Don’t complain about working 3 jobs to pay your rent when there’s other places that you can live where you only need one when you’re literally contributing to why there’s a rent increase. If you’re biting at the high rent price for a shoe closet with communal bath that is no one’s fault but your own

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Anonymous #3 1w

Yeah let me get this straight. You are now blaming the cost of living crisis in this city specifically on leftists with money who can afford to pay rent in places that have been hiked. Not the people hiking them. Not the corporate landlords doing this on purpose. You say gentrification is bad, yet demand everyone leave if they can’t afford to live. Really?

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Anonymous #5 1w

Ahh got it

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Anonymous #7 1w

So what there are no rich black people in New York? I’m saying it’s not a right to live in New York

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Anonymous #7 1w

I don’t blame people who pay higher rent at all. I blame the left for turning New York into a shitthole

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Anonymous #2 1w

Yeah I can’t with these ppl. We can’t afford living in this city bc it’s our fault for paying to have to live in this city. Fuck outta here. Mamdani on top

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Anonymous #2 1w

New York didn’t go to hell until everyone started consistently voting blue

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Anonymous #7 1w

Call me in 2 years

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Anonymous #3 1w

Nah I do because no one realizes that the leftists who move to ny to chase their dreams because it’s a liberal paradise who bites at the high rent prices are only gonna contribute to the rising prices. Business for the most part is that more demand means you can charge more and as long as people are paying and they don’t care how they’re only gonna keep raising the prices, so sure the landlords obviously have some fault at it but what is gonna stop them if people are gonna pay them for them

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Anonymous #5 1w

So we’re not allowed to tax certain folks because they ostensibly bring business. And now the ppl coming to participate in said business are the ones at fault for everything? People don’t move to NY because it’s a liberal paradise, they do because of jobs.

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Anonymous #2 1w

lol yk how many 20-25 year olds move to new York without a job and have their parents pay their rent until they get a job in which they then get an allowance from their rich parents? It’s all privileged white kids

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Anonymous #3 1w

Then tax them too. Tax their parents. Maybe that’ll solve the trust fund kid problem too on top of the landlords. 2 birds with one stone.

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Anonymous #3 1w

Bottom line is ppl who’ve lived in this area for generations are getting priced out, and we’re too timid to use the means available to us to fund public services.

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Anonymous #2 1w

Or we just vote Republican and watch them fix it. If it hasn’t worked this entire time maybe it’s time for a change

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Anonymous #2 1w

Why is taxing everyone a solution instead of people having a wake up call that maybe they can’t afford some places? You don’t see me trying to buy a house in a gated community in Beverly Hills because I know my limits. Genuinely a good chunk of people who move to ny don’t know their limits and are now crying for government help because they don’t wanna leave. Not saying I agree with trust fund kids because I deal with them on an everyday basis, but why does the government have to tell them what

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Anonymous #3 1w

Republicans will just continue to neglect our services and infrastructure which are desperately in need of fixing. They’ll continue to give breaks to multinational corporations who don’t raise wages while the treasury rots. They’ll continue to militarize the police while crime is at historic lows.

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Anonymous #2 1w

They can or can’t do with their money just because a bunch of millennial and genz people don’t know how finances work and that maybe not all dreams are possible

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Anonymous #2 1w

The craziest part is they are spending more money to push against Zohran then what they would loss in the taxes he would implement 😂

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Anonymous #5 1w

so it’s perfectly fine for the poor who work 60+ hours a week for their money to pay more in taxes than the rich?

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Anonymous #11 1w

If you do the math for someone who makes $100 mil taxable income a year in nyc which is the type of people you wanna tax more about 11% state, about 4% city, and 37% federal income tax right? They’re paying already without any of these policies is already about 52 million a year

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Anonymous #11 1w

The issue no one is talking about is that eventually these people are gonna just move to a place to keep living their lifestyle without having to pay for everyone else or they’re gonna be taxed so much they fall out of that tax bracket of extra taxes which means running out of money and eventually falling on the common person anyways long term it genuinely will not work

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