Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Wall Street will leave NY if tax and spend continues: Steve Moore" video.

@sl66ggehrubt Yes. One of the biggest complaints of blue states is how the other states ruin their gun-control plans and poverty programs. "All the poor people move here! The OTHER states need programs like OURS!" It's THEIR fault we're failing. And they've never talked about but totally relied on State and Local Tax deduction on the federal form, so that the rich who pay all the high taxes in blue cities and states can no longer get it all back on their federal taxes. Eliminating that one deduction made the blue states and blue cities sink like rocks, BEFORE COVID-19. I think they're trying their hardest to use COVID-19 as an excuse to get a federal bailout, and the rest of the country's saying "Things are tough all over, New York! Now YOU get in line like the rest of us. The blue cities have been receiving free government services for decades, gaming the rest of us with the SALT deduction. Yeah, all those rich liberals living in the cities with their virtue signaling have been writing that s*** off the whole time and getting every nickel of it back. And they get the best of all the city services, from extra cops for their events, to free infrastructure for their building projects. "We proudly pay our fair share. Go ahead and raise taxes on us. We're fine with that. wink-wink " The countryside's been footing the bill for lavish, wasteful, and ineffective city programs for a long time. Sadly, even stealing the funds like that, they were still running those cities into the ground. Personally, I feel that most families, and especially the families that give a darn, would do a lot better with an education funding formula that went to the students, rather than to the institutions. You can have a full-service private school do a better job than PS 109 for that same amount of money. There's a ridiculous amount of overhead in municipal public schools. There's a lot of money, but a lot of overhead. The rural schools can be taken down by one too many special-needs students, and they don't have near the tax base of the city schools, which also get pretty good subsidies. It's not that we don't spend too much money. We've just let education become a monopoly, with all the pathologies associated with monopolies. They should make schools fight for customer dollars, imho.
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It's the Chinese Communist model. Everybody's happy. The job passes through 20 sets of hands. Each takes their 5 or 10 or 20% of the pie that remains. The people who do the work and buy the materials make do with about 10% of what the Chinese THOUGHT thought they were spending on a construction project or any other project.
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