Mayor Lori light foot has lost in the runoff and won’t be re-elected as mayor. Update: Brandon Johnson wins
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When the NYPD did a work stoppage in protest a while back, it actually didn't really hurt
The NYPD "slowdown" that’s cut arrests in New York by half, explained
The NYPD feels underappreciated by Mayor Bill de Blasio — so they're no longer issuing parking tickets or arresting minor offenders
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Bleed The Freak
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Stop it. You'll sound like (insert Coli name) if you speak on these things.
CEO of Morgan Industries
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Good, these cities are overcrowded, and it'll maybe move some non-Republican voters into states where they can affect Senate races that otherwise would go GOP. The GOP's natural advantage in the Senate needs to be blunted.
Bleed The Freak
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There's nothing good about
Losing house seats
Losing tax revenue
Losing registered voters
Yes it does help turn states like AZ and GA purple but shyt it's a terrible terrible look.
Having an honest discussion about the cost of these states and their taxes does not mean you love Trump.
And Wtf good are all these taxes doing if they're not making a DENT in homelessness?!?
Some folks you cannot save.
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Rest In Power Kobe
CEO of Morgan Industries
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I don't think I ever said that.
But this sort of redistribution of who are mostly college-educated workers with prospects is natural. This is how it used to be before the disastrous brain drain that led to a bunch of people piling into a few cities. Enrico Moretti wrote a great book about this called The New Geography of Jobs.
Short-term, the list of things that are negatives are outweighed by a longer-term fairer distribution of the tax base that keeps brain drain to a minimum and keeps people from feeling good about turning to extremists exactly like Trump.
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Double-post
KFBF
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Do you know what percentage of taxes raised in those states are going towards homelessness?
Bleed The Freak
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I do not. Clearly whatever rate is at with the surcharges they have ain't working.
It's ridiculous to have all those taxes and folks are STILL living in the streets. It's money wasted if they say it's for that cause.
Some folks just don't change their behavior no matter what
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KFBF
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In San Diego for every one person that gets off the street and into housing, three more are accessing homeless services for the first time. So then you tack on the people that aren't accessing homeless services and the numbers are probably much worse.
More people are becoming homeless than people coming off the street with no end in sight. This doesn't even account for folks couch surfing or one bad break away from being on the street themselves.
I'd be absolutely shocked if the annual police budgets w/ overtime weren't significantly larger than what these cities are spending on homelessness or education, or both combined.
In these liberal cities the people in charge are grappling with the people that think anyone who can't afford soemwhrre to live should be fined and thrown in jail and the people that think homeless people should be allowed to set up camp anywhere and shouldn't be held accountable for anything they do. So as a result they do a lot of half measures that don't accomplish anything besides provide press release content.
There's not a solution for homelessess outside of homes. The money they're raising in taxes probably barely covers the staff that run the programs to try to get people in housing but those are saddled with so much bureaucratic red tape.
Not saying this is the case with you but tI hink the majority of people don't have an issue with homelessness they have an issue being reminded of it. Which is why in red states where they lock homeless people up or shuttle them around to other parts of the city can say they don't have a homeless issue.
I think I had a point in there at some point. The way this country treats is less fortunate is shameful.