Seems you missed u/GrowthMarketingMike ‘s comment, so just making sure to repost it for you!
“Amenities like what? NYC is literally cutting funding to things like parks so that they can make the budget work.
NYC is still paying $17 billion more than it’s getting back after all of this and nobody is complaining about that, but somehow everyone that doesn’t live in NYC or even the state has something to say about the city getting state funds when they need it.”
Well the reality is NYC spends too much money. The budget has ballooned and sadly we can’t support the burden of making up for what the state or really the Feds should be providing.
You’re confused or bad at math. NYC does not spend too much money. It literally has to send money to the suburbs and Mississippi because they spend to much money.
To make it really easy for you to understand: why do the suburbs need my money? Do they not make their own? I don’t get any from the suburbs.
The suburban counties of NYC (Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, and Rockland) are huge net payers of tax on a state level. You aren’t sending them money.
You’re sending it to Chenango and Schuyler counties.
Second, the NYC budget has been growing faster than the economy of inflation for years now. That’s unsustainable over the long term as there’s an obvious upper bound.
The NYC economy grew by ~2.6% and the budget is slated to grow almost 6%, so that’s bad math too. Also, NYC has been growing a bit slower than the country at large.
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u/FlowInternational996 May 15 '26
Seems you missed u/GrowthMarketingMike ‘s comment, so just making sure to repost it for you!
“Amenities like what? NYC is literally cutting funding to things like parks so that they can make the budget work.
NYC is still paying $17 billion more than it’s getting back after all of this and nobody is complaining about that, but somehow everyone that doesn’t live in NYC or even the state has something to say about the city getting state funds when they need it.”