NYC $3 Delivery Tax
NYC wants to charge a $3 tax on anything delivered to your house to try and incentivize patronizing local businesses. At what point do the morons that run this city come to terms with reality. How stupid do you have to be to suggest something as egregious as this.
On top of this Cuomo is over here saying taxes need to be raised even if the fed provides the state with funding to make up for COVID shortfalls.
This state and its cities are run by idiots, when do these liberal states with horribly mismanaged budgets just fail entirely?
You just stay in your homes. Now we will tax you for delivery because we don’t want you to leave your home.
Insane, it's pretty amazing how poorly run California and New York are. Delivery service democratize things and make it easy for all restaurants to offer delivery...
If there's one thing that's constant about this city, then its the will of its politicians to disincentivize people of all economic classes from living here. They are proposing this bill to save the MTA, but the MTA already gets a portion, albeit small, of NYC sales tax. Why would you effectively implement, an already regressive, double sales tax? If things are as dire for the MTA as they say, it's time to make the tough decisions by rightsizing the labor force and cutting compensation and pension benefits (which is long overdue - ~$1 of every fare goes to OPEB & Pensions).
The funny thing is that there are so many dopes that leave the state of ny or ca for red Florida or Texas and then vote for the very same policies (dem) that made them leave the last state. I DONT GET IT!!! That’s why Texas is getting bluer. Companies are moving there and the white collar workers from cali are voting democrat. Are some of these people so infatuated by the party to the point that they don’t even realize why they left the last state.
I really don’t get it. They leave these states and cite income taxes, quality of life, etc and then vote for the exact same policies. It’s not even like the people they’re voting for in the new states are hiding anything, they unequivocally run on raising taxes. I saw a survey, I think WSJ, that said something like 70% of NYC residents who left cited income tax as one of the primary reasons for leaving. Where is the logic of heading to a low income tax state to then vote for higher income taxes?
Cuomo is a genius visionary and yet he isn't doing enough imo. He can take a page out of Lorena Gonzales' playbook perhaps to accelerate and better implement his genius.
Cuomo still needs to do more in order to get all the reasonable and hard working citizens to leave NYC faster and in larger droves. He did a good job getting Singer to take his impressive tax revenues to FL. I propose they tax clean air as it's a privilege to breath any in NYC. Hopefully then the people with any value add and self worth in the community can dissipate and bring their talents to the FLs and TXs of the world where they can be rightfully appreciated.
They'll turn Florida and Texas blue and kill those states as well
What a bad idea, incentivizes the exact opposite of stay at home orders. Must not have taken Econ.
Although on the second part, I don't know if all liberal states mismanage their budgets - California had a strong budget surplus/rainy day fund for years Pre-Covid (high taxes are a whole different issue but wouldn't really call their's a "horribly mismanaged budget")
You do know that California has more than half a trillion dollars in debt right?
Ur right it is supposed to be $54bn deficit - edited to say Pre-Covid. Coronavirus has changed that for sure even TX and FL have small projected deficits.
"Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome" - Charlie Munger
nuts.
Right...but to avoid taxing us $3 on delivery, we then should have also not significantly cut tax revenue with the TCJA, not given corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks to the likes of Amazon and Tesla, etc. so that governments have more revenue to manage these crises.
Not saying the two are linked, just saying that we all kept quiet when policies were put in place to starve the government of cash...but now that governments need it and are forced to adopt these crazy taxes like this $3 delivery tax, we're suddenly outraged.
Did we really give corporate welfare to AMZN? Not sure if I’m reading your post correctly but we ran them out of town and lost a significant amount of jobs.
Amazon isn't the first and only example of this, this is just the first one everyone paid attention to.
The bigger point is that, to prevent good citizens like ourselves from being taxed for stupid stuff like food delivery when we are in a pandemic, we need to make sure governments are adequately funded.
This tax is stupid...but so is our behavior that led to this tax.
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