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Strange. I wonder if it's politics. There's a great idea for pushing tech, but then the anti-banking lobby kicks in, as does everyone else that's anti-busines
by mathattack 13y ago
Strange. I wonder if it's politics. There's a great idea for pushing tech, but then the anti-banking lobby kicks in, as does everyone else that's anti-business.
Unclear if this got watered down while Bloomberg was in town, or if it's part of Deblassio's class warfare.
- paddy_m 13y agoThis was started during Bloomberg's term. The same provisions were there.
- epc 13y agoThis is a New York State program, Bloomberg was mayor of New York City.
- mathattack 13y agoWas it this watered down when the program began? If so, I start to wonder, "Why bother?" I get the objections... You don't want to incent people who are already here. It still seems like a lot of hoops.
- epc 13y agoThis is the first year (roughly) of the program. They (NY State) announced it last year. Many of us in NYC looked at it and were like: "ok, well, no use to us". The thing with NY State programs is that they're almost entirely geared to helping politicians north of I-84. While the NYC region has the bulk of the population, it doesn't control the legislature (so when people complain about NYC's taxes, keep in mind that the state controls the tax structure, NYC has minimal control over revenue). NYC's programs for startup businesses (digital and otherwise) have been more oriented to eliminating red tape, some real estate help. Lately there's an extremely underhyped effort to get fiber to offices, but the requirements are such that you'd need to be well along in your business to take advantage of it.