Nothing more delusional than Democrats believing they own the affordability issue.
The Marist poll reveals that one in three New Yorkers are planning to leave the state in the next five years.
After the week we’ve just had, I suppose you might sympathize with the 7% of respondents who said they want to leave because they’re fed up with the weather.
It hasn’t been much fun trying to get around the streets as Mayor Zohran Mamdani´s paid volunteers made their unsupervised efforts to push the snow around. At the cost of $30 an hour per shoveler.
But the main reason people say they want to leave New York is that eight out of 10 respondents say the city has become unaffordable — due to daily living costs, rent, taxes and more.
Yet here’s the strange thing: The Democrats keep talking about the cost-of-living crisis in New York. But they talk about it as though it has nothing to do with them.
Don’t we have a Democratic mayor? And wasn’t the last mayor a Democrat? And the one before him?
Gov. Kathy Hochul is a Democrat. As was the governor before her. And the governor before him. And so on.
You get the idea.
So when the people in charge talk about New York’s cost-of-living crisis, why do they talk about it as though it’s like a snowstorm? Some sort of natural disaster? Or even a problem that their political rivals are responsible for?
Our new mayor has already threatened to address the city’s historic deficit by raising property taxes. In Mamdani-land, this is the sort of thing that affects only the super-rich — people who are able to afford to buy a property in New York. But he campaigned on a promise that he would stop New York becoming unaffordable to renters.
And just whom does he think those increased property taxes will be passed on to? You don’t have to be a fiscal genius to know that landlords will pass on any property tax increases to their tenants.
Mamdani’s proposed property tax increases will target households with an income of around $122,000 a year. And while that might seem high in many parts of the country, in New York that means that a couple who are each bringing in $60K a year will be taxed as if they are the super-rich.
In fact, it will be middle-class New Yorkers who are already struggling with child care and much more who will be affected. Can anyone blame people for feeling the squeeze and considering hot-footing it out of the place?
Because it isn’t just on the big things like rent that the Democrats in Albany make everyone´s life unaffordable. It’s on the small things too.
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The real affordability crisis is in the cities where Democrats rule
Sometimes people just vote with their feet. And a new poll out this week suggests many New Yorkers might be willing to do just that.The Marist poll reveals that one in three New Yorkers are planning to leave the state in the next five years.
After the week we’ve just had, I suppose you might sympathize with the 7% of respondents who said they want to leave because they’re fed up with the weather.
It hasn’t been much fun trying to get around the streets as Mayor Zohran Mamdani´s paid volunteers made their unsupervised efforts to push the snow around. At the cost of $30 an hour per shoveler.
But the main reason people say they want to leave New York is that eight out of 10 respondents say the city has become unaffordable — due to daily living costs, rent, taxes and more.
Yet here’s the strange thing: The Democrats keep talking about the cost-of-living crisis in New York. But they talk about it as though it has nothing to do with them.
Don’t we have a Democratic mayor? And wasn’t the last mayor a Democrat? And the one before him?
Gov. Kathy Hochul is a Democrat. As was the governor before her. And the governor before him. And so on.
You get the idea.
So when the people in charge talk about New York’s cost-of-living crisis, why do they talk about it as though it’s like a snowstorm? Some sort of natural disaster? Or even a problem that their political rivals are responsible for?
Our new mayor has already threatened to address the city’s historic deficit by raising property taxes. In Mamdani-land, this is the sort of thing that affects only the super-rich — people who are able to afford to buy a property in New York. But he campaigned on a promise that he would stop New York becoming unaffordable to renters.
And just whom does he think those increased property taxes will be passed on to? You don’t have to be a fiscal genius to know that landlords will pass on any property tax increases to their tenants.
Mamdani’s proposed property tax increases will target households with an income of around $122,000 a year. And while that might seem high in many parts of the country, in New York that means that a couple who are each bringing in $60K a year will be taxed as if they are the super-rich.
In fact, it will be middle-class New Yorkers who are already struggling with child care and much more who will be affected. Can anyone blame people for feeling the squeeze and considering hot-footing it out of the place?
Because it isn’t just on the big things like rent that the Democrats in Albany make everyone´s life unaffordable. It’s on the small things too.
The real affordability crisis is in the cities where Democrats rule
The Marist poll reveals that one in three New Yorkers are planning to leave the State in the next five years.
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