NYC Mayor Ingenuously Proposes Taxing Rich To Fix Subway System. New York Citys mayor, Bill de Blasio, is expected to announce on Monday a tax on the wealthiest residents in the city to pay for much needed improvements for the citys deteriorating subway system, according to multiple reports. And unless youre a millionaire who thrives on the misery of the poor or whose life would be debilitated frommaybehaving one less extreme fine dining experience per month, this is good. The new tax would raise an estimated 7. The New York Times, with 5. Imagine youre a billionaire, and you pay a little extra per year to benefit someone who lives in the same city as you, a billionaire, but doesnt happen to earn a billion dollars per year. Is this a situation you could emotionally handle Or do you revel in the image of someone crying on the platform of a 7 train, somewhere out past Astoria, crying because theyre going to be late for work, again, and potentially lose their job Are you happy If youve noticed an uptick in disgruntled Facebook posts from your New York City friends, youreRead more Read. Dark_Forces_Box_Cover.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/500?cb=20170615215504' alt='Manual Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Walkthrough' title='Manual Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Walkthrough' />The subway system is 1. If you dont have a social media stream infiltrated by New Yorkers bellowing about the current state of the subway, and need to brush up on why de Blasios pitching this idea, heres what you need to know the system is falling apart. Manual Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Walkthrough' title='Manual Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Walkthrough' />Theres endless delays, derailments, overcrowded stations, nightmare rides, all leading to lost wages and jobs, and its because of a significant lack of funding thats plaguing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway. An additional tax on the most well off residents in the cityat the benefit of all NYC residents, thereby reinforcing some semblance of the idea that government, and government services, exist to serve the people, and in order to do that the government needs a reasonable amount of money to adequately provide those servicesmakes sense. The city is the home to 8. Times, de Blasios proposed tax would barely put a dent in their annual gross income. The planwhich requires approval by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature, according to the New York Postcalls for raising the citys highest income tax rate by about a half a percentage point for married couples with incomes above 1 million, to 4. Individuals who earn more than 5. Officials estimated the tax would be paid by about 3. Times says. What would a jump from 3. Microsoft Office Enterprise Edition 2007 Legal Version. The database recognizes 1,746,000 software titles and delivers updates for your software including minor upgrades. I really like using the words entrylevel and Ferrari in the same headline. They sound weird together, but its genuinely a thing that exists, like. The New York Post, which expectedly drenched the top half of their story about the proposal with language to enrage the upper class, explains The tax hike would amount to an additional 2,7. City Hall. So, even at its lowest, the individual making 5. In other words, its onemaybe twovery nice dinners per month for this person. The compromise sure seems reasonable when stacked against the resident who lives in the outer boroughs and has to cobble together 1. Manhattan for a restaurant job, but it didnt take long for some observers to inject objectively dumb points of view into the situation. Take Ari Fleischer, a flack who made a living by selling the nation lies about the Iraq War and now exists to willingly apologize for Donald Trump Putting Fleischers moronic flat tax argument aside for a moment, floating the idea that its acceptable to tax someone who earns 1. Fleischer and continuously give him a platform to weigh in. Fleischers earlier point was that de Blasios tax would give low income residents access to the subway for free, which is demonstrably untrue, but a lie hasnt stopped him before. Why would a flat tax be dumb, thoughA spinoff of Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy allows players to create their own Jedi, train in the Academy under the tutelage of Luke Skywalker and Kyle. Last weeks violent, unhinged white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which culminated in a terror attack which killed Heather Heyer and wounded. New York Citys mayor, Bill de Blasio, is expected to announce on Monday a tax on the wealthiest residents in the city to pay for muchneeded improvements for the. Manual Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Walkthrough' title='Manual Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Walkthrough' />Hamilton Nolan summarized it excellently a couple years ago in Gawker Our whole progressive tax code, in which tax rates go up as income rises broadly speaking, is based on the idea that as people get richer and richer, they can afford to contribute more to the public good, whereas people who are very poor cannot afford to contribute as great a percentage, because they need that money in a much more acute way. The progressive tax code, in other words, is based upon reality. A flat tax is based upon a fantasy that a millionaire and a minimum wage earner can both afford to pay the same percentage their salary towards the public treasury. The flat taxs appeal is a millimeter deep the percentage is the same, therefore fairness existsbut a moments contemplation of it will reveal that it is a terrible policy for the poor. Until rich, contemptible morons like Fleischer and politicians who agree with him are either driven out of public life for good, or have a stunning come to Jesus moment, its hard to see the New York state legislature signing on to de Blasios plan. Acl 9 Software.