i'm not telling you anything you don't already know. from upstate, you probably had that fleeting thought out of a sense of loyalty. it won't be requited. it takes a real constitution for the folks up there that still try. just got a couple days up there to refresh.a fan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:30 pmAnd all small businesses, who pay the taxes for the corporations who get a break.
So then when someone like me looks at opening a plant in NY? I say "wow, those are high taxes". And the ENTIRE REASON those taxes are so high for nobodies like me is that corporations aren't paying doodly. So I make up the difference with jacked up rates. And Amazon laughs all the way to the bank, and pockets my money.
It's a race to the bottom. And the thing is, politicians KNOW it's a race to the bottom. But the money from these multinational corporations pay for their campaigns, so....we're out of luck.
Or just scrap the whole stupid, entirely corrupt tax system, and replace it with a flat consumption tax, and solve the problem. Then everyone pays the same rate.
we are drones. if 25% of the population even knew someday what big business contributes to our collective iou's, it'd be a miracle. why they get to write the tax code in this information age is beyond me. we allow politicians to argue about the stupidest, mundane positions that create soundbites, with zero accountability to the goal of service. meanwhile, covid may help make this have vs have not if not irretrievable, at least long-lastingly worse, with policy decisions and inept stimulus.
in the case of cuomo, he's either banking on his money guys in the metropolis, is frozen like a deer in the headlights from early covid decisions, or checking out his borrowing capabilities @ a couple percent to give him a stay until 2024. if biden loses, my expectation is he runs. think he likes his press conference ratings as much as trump does.
