The lottery--two megalotteries--is/are big news in New York today, even though you always hear there's a better chance of being struck by lightning.
That's silly. Who'd shell out two bucks to be struck by lightning?
The NYC transit meltdown is the single most threatening structural issue the city and state both face and the best this governor can do is stage PR events, change the subject, and bully his way out of answering questions about solutions that require political leaders to get out of their comfort zones. He doesn't have to like the mayor to get on the same team.
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AT HOME ABROAD
"U.S. mayors should stay home"
--Now, that's a silly fallacy!
Consider Bill de Blasio,
Mayor with a foreign policy.
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Cuomo and de Blasio are falling over each other in their rush to provide more free stuff to more people. Except of course to those of us who work for a living, and who pay the taxes that pay for all the free stuff. Free college tuition. Public housing, Welfare. Food stamps. All on the taxpayer dime. The state of the state of New York may look decent in the metropolitan area, but get north of Orange County and you will notice lots and lots of closed factories and cities with more closed storefronts than thriving businesses. Meanwhile de Blasio and Cuomo go on spending, and running for president at the expense of New Yorkers.
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And that spend, spend, spend policy becomes all the more painful as those taxes become ineligible for deduction.
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I pay those taxes: I think free college tuition leads to a more civilized NY. I think well nourished students learn more. Residents of NYCHA housing pay a percentage of their income for rent and often aren’t even getting basic services like heat and hot water. The crime being perpetrated is that lawmakers vote for their own pay raises. I am a federal employee: I think I deserve a 10% pay raise. If the City Counsel and the Albany law makers can increase their paychecks why can’t I?
Think Cuomo will propose that we name the State after his daddy? After all why should we be saddled with an unimaginative, derivative name "York" taken from the British?
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Could we we please stop talking about “tuition-free college”? That would mean that the State supported the colleges at a level where no tuition was needed. That’s not what we have by a long shot. What we have is tuition assistance for students (with a lot of strings attached). It is definitely a good thing for the students. It is not helping the financial plight of the colleges, which remain underfunded by the State.
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What is really happening for NYC transit ,especially subway is an an absolute disgrace, a disgrace that the governor cannot fix ,they don't have an answer for where is the money going for so long , it is not only the system that is 30 years overdue,it is so dirty , something that doesn't cost billions to improve, I don't know how Mr Cuomo can even think of running for higher office in 2020.
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Do you know the name of a democrat running against him? I dont, and so he will most likely get voted in on name recognition alone.
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