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Residents of NYC pays 11.1 billion dollars more in state (and 10.9 billion more in federal taxes) than they receive in benefits[1] (hell, we had to /beg/ for he
by warfangle 17y ago
Residents of NYC pays 11.1 billion dollars more in state (and 10.9 billion more in federal taxes) than they receive in benefits[1] (hell, we had to /beg/ for help from the feds after 9/11). That's why there's a NYC income tax on top of the other two. If they received their fair share, things like this /might/ be able to be fixed - along with the huge deficit that the MTA runs[2]. And the kicker of it all? Upstate New Yorkers tend to heavily dislike us city dwellers. Despite the fact that we fund just about everything the state does for them...
[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2009a/pr166-09.html http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2009a/pr166-09.html
[2] http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/mta-faces-12-billion-deficit/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/mta-faces-12-bi...
- tc 17y ago.... which is why the problems of government get worse the bigger and further away government gets. Taxes and services at the state level are less bad than at the federal level, and taxes and services at the local level are better still. When we all send our money into one big pool, and then have to grovel and beg to get it back from bureaucrats, we start to resent our neighbors.
- anamax 17y agoI'll take the "urban regions pay more than they get" argument seriously when urban centers start electing federal reps who say "cut the federal govt and let localities tax themselves to pay for what they want".