The mayor recently announced that New York City may have to spend twelve billion dollars on immigrants this year. A couple of months ago, it was only going to cost four billion dollars to take care of the illegal aliens undocumented workers coming to New York. In just a few months the cost has quadrupled!
Twelve billion dollars divided by roughly eight-and-a-half million residents of NYC equals about $1500 each; but if you divide by the approximately three-and-a-half million people who are the taxpayers of NYC, it comes out to $3500 each. Those New Yorkers will have to pay about $3500/year additional taxes to pay for the immigrants, whether it's income tax, real estate tax, sales tax, etc. Perhaps well-to-do NYers think that's a reasonable price to pay to ensure there's an adequate supply of stock boys, delivery boys, taxi drivers, food-prep workers and busboys, painters, plasterers and bricklayers. But for those of us making less than $75,000 per year, that's a lot of extra taxes.
But instead of looking at how much it costs per taxpayer, let's look at it this way ..
12 billion dollars divided by 100,000 immigrants equals 120,000 dollars each! That's a pretty big sign-on bonus. For a family with two kids, nearly half a million dollars. The City expects that each current NYer kick in a few bucks so that each immigrant gets huge bucks!
Wow, where can I sign up for that?
Why so much money, can't the city fill those jobs with high school grads from kansas, oklahoma, or michigan, who would gladly take half that amount for a chance to live in the rotten big apple?
On the other hand, does the money actually go to the immigrants? No, it goes to social service agencies, hotel owners, landlords, food & clothing vendors; all of whom have incentive to overcharge for what they're selling, skimming the huge profits. Just like the billions spent on homelessness and welfare, almost none of the money flows to the immigrants. So actually, The City expects that each current NYer kick in a few bucks so that connected businesses make huge profits!
Meanwhile, the city is expecting revenue shortfalls as more and more productive upper-middle-class taxpayers flee to other states with lower taxes; instead of trying to make common sense budget decisions, the City Council wastes time debating proposals about restaurants giving out plastic forks, legalizing jaywalking, not allowing the sale of guinea pigs, forcing people to compost their garbage, demanding that ice cream trucks be solar powered. Their priorities should be to create a sustainable economy with reasonable tax policies, balancing the budget, not driving away productive people.
Several hundred of NYC's recent immigrants, previously living on the sidewalk in front of The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown, have been relocated to Brooklyn's "Chinatown" .. Sunset Park, where they are occupying the public swimming pool and recreation center (https://satellites.pro/USA_map#40.647850,-74.001772,16). There have been protests by the local community, mostly legal chinese immigrants. The indoor recreation spaces are filled with cots now.
None of us voted for this.
None of us were allowed to vote on this.
Our "representatives" are no longer representing us.
For the past 50-60 years, New York City has been ruled/managed by a single monolithic political regime, which may have had noble aspirations, but has lost their way; they have imposed laws and regulations which are slowly destroying the city, and subjugated the people with repressive policies. They have mismanaged the wealth and resources they inherited.
Time to sweep them out of office.
No, it goes to social service agencies, hotel owners, landlords, food & clothing vendors; all of whom have incentive to overcharge for what they're selling, skimming the huge profits.
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You left out the campaign contributions to the Democrat party from these players getting taxpayer
funds.