Anonymous #1 22h

“next person” like he won’t be mayor for the next 3 years 💀

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Anonymous #1 22h

“State aid” NYC sends more tax money to Albany than it receives in benefits. (Kinda like how blue states send money to red states) He’s just balancing that relationship like he’s always said he would do from day one.

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Anonymous #1 22h

“Postponing pensions” extending a deadline for paying money to a fund by 5 years, while not affecting any current pensions seems like not a huge deal

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Anonymous #2 22h

A: Everyone that supports him champions the idea of wealth redistribution from the comparatively wealthy to the comparatively poor on an individual level, but when the comparatively wealthy nyc redistributes wealth to the comparatively poor upstate it’s a problem?

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Anonymous #5 21h

why is your first concern when children are being educated how much money it will make? why is it not about how much smarter our children will be?

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Anonymous #1 21h

Technically #1 is right, but I wouldn’t call it deceitful. He is shifting pension payments down the line, extending them into the mid 2030s, which is just postponing debt rather than eliminating it. His plan also requires revenues and third party approval that isn’t fully guaranteed. BUT, his proposal is promising and it’s cool that he even created a plan like this in the first place. We just have to wait to see if it really does eliminate FY deficits.

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Anonymous OP 18h

Being smart isn’t gonna pay your debt. Look at how many doctors and lawyers are in crippling debt from med or law school. If the school is costing tax payers too much then shut them down

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Anonymous OP 17h

No it’s just curiosity bc when I hear investment it’s usually bc they expect to make money back. It was early and I just read “investment” as that instead of investment in education if that makes sense. I’m thrilled and have no issue w it, they SHOULD be putting more money towards education. I just misread and had a question damn😭😭

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Anonymous OP 17h

Like if it was rephrased as “he increased the budget to $122M” I wouldn’t have even thought about it, I was simply confused when I heard the word investment. Maybe it’s bc I’m in NC and haven’t heard “investing in education” in years🫩🫩and I absolutely HATE that about our state rn

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Anonymous #5 17h

when people say “investing in education” often times they mean investing in a less financial sense. as in, “we’re investing more money into the future of our citizens, thereby creating an even greater generation of scientists, engineers, and business leaders.”

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Anonymous #5 16h

The goal of government isn’t to make a return on investment, nor should it be

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Anonymous #8 16h

I’m so deadass

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Anonymous #5 13h

Better educated citizens get higher paying jobs/create businesses and pay more in taxes when they grow up. They could also become inventors or researchers and create something that increases productivity or efficiency or creates new markets

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Anonymous OP 10h

No no I got that once I re-read it. My brain was not working this morning and got confused

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