• JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    as a non-american looking from outside, if NYC already taxed the rich for a lot, then to me the next sensible logical thing for the mayor to do is manage the apparently already lots of money to better use and making his platform come true. to me whatever NYC is doing that sounds like mismanagement of tax funds

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      3 days ago

      I suspect a lot of NYCs liabilities are in strong union-negotiated pensions for retired police, transit, sanitation workers. Hard to get out from under those without really hurting people. The difficulty with taxing rich people is that they can easily change their tax residency to just outside NYC where plenty of counties will give them a big break on income taxes.

      • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        The difficulty with taxing rich people is that they can easily change their tax residency to just outside NYC where plenty of counties will give them a big break on income taxes.

        Mamdani’s proposal is to raise taxes on any company doing business in NYC. They wouldn’t be able to just change residency, they’d have to stop doing business in New York entirely.

      • A7thStone@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        NYC has a city income tax that’s hard to avoid if you’re doing well and easy to avoid if you’re not.