Oh no! The horror of free bus transportation and affordable housing. Aaaaaaaaaaa!
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Right wing empty threats. No one is leaving.....
Just a bunch of chest pounding and whining
Bye! Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
1 million republicans, landlords included, threathened to leave new york.
honestly left leaning places should do this more. the right does it when they make cruel laws to torture dissidents - all the left needs to do is trigger them and get them to leave.
- maybe require identification on social media (dislike but rightwing trolls get hurt more) ,
- ban vehicles over a certain size on class c licenses (like 4k lbs, intentionally low enough to ban big pickup trucks),
- ban private schools and fund schools from state taxes entirely instead of city for equity,
- require highschoolers to take classes on psychology and parenting,
- make sex ed mandatory and lgbt inclusive,
- build up light rail and ban cars in cities except for delivery purposes,
- require garbage to be sorted and actually fine people,
- massively shorten prison sentences and focus on re education to end "prison culture",
- tax incentivize continual adult education,
- document undocumented immigrants
- pay black people reparations
- ensure access to abortions and contraceptives to everyone, including minors
- legally mandate vaccines
- institute a maximum wage,
- institute election spending maximums,
- ban landlords, the local govt takes ownership of rental properties and contracts property managers or something
- universal healthcare
- ban the pledge of allegiance
idk what else?
Require High Schoolers to also learn Civics and critical thinking.
Exams on civil rights history
Uh, that first one is kinda dumb. Very much unnecessary and kinda goes along the same line of thinking as republicans giving up their rights so that minorities have it worse.
I was with you until the trash sorting. That sounds like a great way to get people to recycle even less.
You know how Texas just threatened tariffs on people moving in? He should do the opposite; a large% tax on anyone attempting to change their residency to a non NY one.
Youre a bilionaire who wants to leave NY? cool- that $10M in property you own should just about cover it, along with a check for a couple million. Otherwise you can keep paying taxes here.
Wealth tax. Probably more useful than maximum wage, anyway.
Fuck they’re all gonna go to the Poconos, aren’t they
Poconos, KY
I think NYC is going to have more of a problem of people moving to the city thanks to Mamdani
So are rent prices going to increase? He's already making everything worse already \s
WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED
If I wasn't tied down to this red state....☹️
I'll believe it when I see it!
Because when I see it, I'm moving to NYC!!
And if the improbable actually happens, it just means that Mandani managed to lower house prices on his own.
- Bad news for those who bought property to sell / rent
- Indifferent news to those who bought property to live in it
Is there an economist or other smart-ish person who has commented on what an actual exodus of 1m residents would do to housing prices there? I’m curious
An analysis isn't really going to work without a lot of extra information. People don't just leave overnight because if they own property, which is the claim here, then they have to find someone to buy it. And as other people start leaving property values would plummet so then there would be less incentive for more people to leave.
And to begin with, really poor people have incredible difficulty moving in general, because they don't have extra money saved up to pay for a truck or to get a new apartment or to take time off of work to deal with all of that or to even apply for jobs in distant locations.
So let's move on to middle class renters. What about them, would they leave? But if somehow they did, that, would I think make room for a lot of other people to move into the city. As you know, many people commute from New Jersey and dislike it on account of the fact that they have to live in New Jersey and if they could move into the city they would probably do so. And then there's all of the other people who don't currently live in or near New York who are hearing about this person who might make the city an amazing place, from their point of view, and if they can get in on it then they're going to.
So I don't see the population significantly declining even if you somehow had people moving in and out at record numbers, and even that doesn't seem like it makes sense.
Wikipedia say NY has 8.4m population in 2024. Easiest math, 1 in 8 can choose to leave. A little more detail, of those 1-in-8, they may or may not be politically motivated to relocate.
This is similar to how rich people will threathen to leave a country if taxes for them go up yet never do, because they live were they live and do business were they do business because of how good for them it is to live there and how much more profitable it is to do business were people are more prosperous and the Law actually works.
Turns out that such people want the quality of life they get living were they are and the juicy profits from operating their businesses there, whilst not paying for what makes it all possible themselves and thus be parasites on the rest, is just the cherry on top: they have no problem in saying whatever it takes - because talkie-talkie costs them nothing - to keep on getting that quality of life and profits whilst somebody else pays for the conditions that make it possible, what they're not fine with is the actually doing what they say they will do because if they do act as they threathen, it will cost them said quality of life and profits.
Unsurprisingly (for those who question things a bit further and don't just accept at face value the theatrics of society's top parasites) that "Paradise" free of "government oppression" called Somalia has failed to attract any of those those who claim they will leave the place were they live and do business when society elects somebody who will make them pay their fair share for that quality of life they so enjoy.
Even rich people who moved to texas from california like rogan and musk constantly bitch about how much texas sucks.
I'm curious what they bitch about. Aside from the weather, and the way the lower masses are treated (which they would be happy about, I thought), I don't know of much difference in the two besides the very thing they said they moved away for. Texas has every modern amenity you could dream of in its metropolises.
It's flat and featureless. There is practically no public land besides a few national and state parks, so you can't actually go to those places you see from the road. You'll get shot for trespassing. Cookie cutter mcmansions for a kings ransom everywhere. Slow traffic in cities, huge trucks doing 100mph in the country. And to top it off, some of the most ignorantly, arrogantly, self-righteous people you'll ever meet.
"And to top it off, some of the most ignorantly, arrogantly, self-righteous people you'll ever meet. "
I lived in Dallas during the 90s, when the Cowboys went on their Superbowl run. It was hell.
Why would a billionaire care about any of those things? WTF does Musk or Rogan care about public land? They can buy as much land as they want and have it all to themselves. They probably prefer less public land, since that (usually) can't be bought
McMansions everywhere are probably what they want too. They want to live in a giant mansion
What do they care about traffic? They take private jets everywhere
Ignorant, arrogant, and self-righteous is Musk and Rogan's entire personality
IDK, seems like a great place for those two
I wasn't giving their reasons. Those are mine.
By their nature, billionaires are insatiable. Of course they're bitching. Nothing can ever be good enough. But yeah, Texas sucks.
Can't take a private jet from your mansion in the gated community to your high-rise in the city. Traffic sucks for everyone where it sucks.
(not that I give a fuck if it sucks for shit-sticks like Musk and Rogan)
You get what you pay for.
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Around the world, rich people often do relocate personally for tax purposes. One of the reasons we don't often see rich people in the United States do this is that we have incredibly low taxes compared to the rest of the world. And that's just nominal tax rates; in practice the super-rich pay almost nothing, which makes it even weirder how rabidly anti-tax they are.
There is quite a bit of business relocation that happens because companies are lured to different locales through tax abatements.
One of the reasons we don’t often see rich people in the United States do this is that we have incredibly low taxes compared to the rest of the world
The much, much bigger reason we don't see that in the US is that the US is the only country in the world that can, and does, tax citizens living abroad. Anyone trying to avoid US taxes would have to renounce US citizenship
Anyone trying to avoid US taxes would have to renounce US citizenship
... and would then pay a hefty exit tax.
I'm not convinced on the "only country that can" part though.
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The asshole exodus has begun.
And that is a bad? thing
Lol, I live in California, and sometimes catty Republicans like to make snide comments about how they don't want to live here because of the "politics".
Every time I hear this, I get excited. Like... "Really? Where do you live? Is it nice? Go the fuck away please."
I always laugh when conservatives describe Cali as a "shit hole". Yes, that's exactly why property is so cheap in California, because nobody wants to live in such an awful place.
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Oh my god! Affordable food and housing!
runs away
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