New York City is full of Demcorats. Millions of them. The city is also swelling from the influx of illegal border crossers doing business as ‘migrants,’ their word, not mine. The cost of that preferred policy has come home to roost with the progressive chickens, and the stress fractures are evident everywhere.
Mayor Adams has been losing his s!!t on a regular basis. Local job creators are jumping ship. And now, some of the more socialist socialists in New York are proposing an additional wealth tax to pay the freight on the border jumpers.
The New York Post reported the news Saturday and quoted state Sen. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn), who said:
We should increase taxes because it’s economically just policy to offset all costs for our state to function. I’d say that even if our city and state hadn’t seen an increase in migrants seeking asylum, this moment makes it all the more important for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.
Meanwhile, state Sen. Jabari Brisport (D-Brooklyn) said, “We’re still organizing to tax the rich through the same revenue-raising bills we’ve been fighting for for years.”
But taxation is theft, and everyone getting taxed knows it, so the results, were this a workable solution, are predictable. If the state or NYC tries to milk the remaining investment class members to offset the burdens of bad border policy, more of them will join the many who have already fled.
New York has been bleeding wealth for years, but the pandemic created a new reality. People with the means could still do their thing from someplace else, and do. This created the housing crunch/booms in lots of places where you don’t typically find urban Leties. Rural America.
The two obvious problems are that these well-heeled migrants embrace the beauty, safety, and splendor of non-city living only to demand and vote for politicians who wrecked the place they had to leave. The other is that those of limited means are trapped and left holding a bag that still comes with an exponentially increasing price tag they cannot afford. But this is not an insurmountable problem for those who remain.
Stop electing Democrats. Just stop. Not long after (at least a few years), you may discover that people of means will want to live where you live, invest, create jobs, enjoy the declining crime rate, a better quality of life, and something approaching prosperity on an urban footprint.
You will have to suffer the indignity of having more money in you pocket and your rights and freedoms returned to you, but if you think you can handle that, the rewards are worth the risk.