New York City’s subways are, like every enterprise government runs, a disgrace–an endless sinkhole for taxes that are perpetually on the brink of a new crisis, no matter how much of our money Our Rulers waste on them.
And so on behalf of those subways, which is to say on behalf of the Transit Workers’ Union, we find Comrade Bill de Blasio, New York City’s most communist mayor ever (and the competition for that title is stiff, so you know this guy trumps even Joe Stalin for fervor), hollering about his latest plan to rob the serfs—but only “wealthy” serfs, of course.
Under his scheme,
…an individual making about $1 million would pay about $2,700 more in annual taxes, or about $7 a day, said de Blasio, calling the tax a “modest increase.”
“It’s time for fairness when it comes to supporting the [subways],” he said. ” … We need a millionaire’s tax so New Yorkers who typically travel in first class pay their fair share so the rest of us can get around.”
Ah, the bizarre and perverted “fairness” of socialism! “New Yorkers who typically travel in first class” are not riding the rat-infested, always tardy, dirty, crowded trains, I can guarantee you that. Yet Comrade expects them to fork over $7/day so “the rest of us” can. What could be more equitable, especially since they’re already paying for housing, propaganda–I mean education, food, entertainment and medical care for indigent riders?
NYC boasts about 32,000 victims who fit Comrade’s definition of “wealthy” (and you can bet the media has endlessly hyped that number, as if robbing “only” 32,000 people somehow justifies theft). I hope every last one of them leaves the Socialist Workers’ Paradise of New York City and its shameless thievery before this commie kleptomanic plunders even one more cent from them.
Meanwhile, some of Comrade’s stolen goods will subsidize the already subsidized fares for “800,000 New Yorkers living at or below the poverty line…” Isn’t that just like moronic Leviathan? An overcrowded system suffers from too much use, so the beast increases the demand for it (Pravda–sorry, the New York Slimes intones, “The transit system in Seattle began offering reduced fares for low-income riders in 2015 and has signed up more than 40,000 people,” as if this is the business-model New York should emulate).
Go, government! Keep it up until your own imbecility wipes you from the face of the earth so we don’t have to!
3:23 pm on August 8, 2017
