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I'm of two minds on this issue, but: how can the city have good mass transit if there are no tax dollars to pay for it?
by asdfasgasdgasdg 8y ago
I'm of two minds on this issue, but: how can the city have good mass transit if there are no tax dollars to pay for it?
- BurningFrog 8y agoOne factor is that NY pays 5-10 times more than comparable cities to build its mass transit: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
- seanp2k2 8y agoand in return for all that money, they receive the sewage waterfall: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/penn-stations-latest-addition-a-sewage-waterfall.html http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/penn-stations-latest-... Honestly, why is this so hard when so much of the rest of the developed world manages to do it so well?
- Blackthorn 8y agoThe fact that NYC's transit runs 24/7 makes things really hard to fix, upgrade, change, etc.
- rhizome 8y agoYeah, I heard raw sewage flows through Penn Station so often that people aren't even surprised anymore. Not rare at all.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoAll the same, having Amazon come in with a $3B break doesn't do much to move the ball forward.
- rhizome 8y agoI'm under the impression that Amazon has never been a big taxpayer.
- ehnto 8y agoTheir employees still pay tax though. With tech wages as high as they are it is probably non-trivial amounts. I am not advocating for big businesses evading tax mind you. Just suggesting it would probably still be a boon for the state tax income if a bunch of tech wages migrated to the NY tax base.
- arcticbull 8y agoNY has city income tax too ranging from 2.907% to 3.876%
- C1sc0cat 8y agoAnd also make less demands on the social services
- rhizome 8y agoThe average salary was to be 150K, which I feel is likely to be well within the margin of a desire for minimization.
- sadris 8y agoThey don't make that much money. their profit margins suck.
- davedx 8y ago0 federal income tax for 2018.
- jamroro 8y agoNew York, the wealthiest, biggest city in the country can have good mass transit by properly spending the money it already collects. New Yorkers already pay tremendous tax dollars yet we have the mass transit that we do. The idea that there are no tax dollars is a myth. The funds are simply siphoned off to some other who-knows-what, and the remaining is poorly spent. The purported Amazon tax base would have likely been spent the same.