RE#48:

The jobs aren't going anywhere. There is simply less work and much more unemployment nationally. To my knowledge there aren't any real boom states right now. People may be moving around to find work, but that doesn't mean they are finding good, permanent jobs. It wasn't too long ago I knew too many people leaving NY for places like North Carolina, but that's not happening with rising unemployment everywhere.

High taxes, high rents. The twin devils of NYC that are killing away everything that was once great or merely even good about this city. That so many here are struggling to stay fed is beyond belief.

The economy is fucked, there are NO jobs in the real economy and as such people are leaving the low tax states to the higher tax states (like NY) and then they come here only to find that the job market here is also fucked.

And the thing is, the Food that most people can afford is GMO food full of toxic chemicals and pesticides.

People can't even pay for clean organic food and forced to eat GMO foods due to the fact that Organic is more expensive.

proposes=proposals

#35 so you're saying man-made pollution has no effect on the climate? right...

hey guys you don't have to live in manhattan to live in NYC. paying high rent is a choice. you don't have live paycheck to paycheck. use your brains morons.

anyway these new tax proposes suck and will fuck new yorkers and nyc. the reason these fucks in government and the mta are getting away with it is because no one is doing shit about it. everyone is fucking complacent.

People are leaving low tax states like Nevada because the jobs are going.

Then where are the people or the jobs going? They sure aren't opening new businesses here since we've pretty successfully chased every business not located in Manhattan out of the state.

As bad as things are here, it's not really good anywhere else. People are leaving low tax states like Nevada because the jobs are going. You want a prosperous low tax place to live? Go to Dubai.

Drewo- yeah, so-so security is a huge rip. And unaffected by your deductions. And what's the deal with the cut-off? That's where they should START collecting it.

Food costs too much. I spend a long time at my supermarket looking for bargains, and then my idiot husband guzzles a gallon of milk like we're made of money, and buys 6-packs of Bud light for 9 bucks! Nine bucks! So I figure my spending in 6-pack-units which are equal to 9 dollars. Example: I bought an pedomter for less than 3 6-pack-units.

I have some secret money socked away but laughably little.

#35 don't be ignorant, MAN-MADE climate change (of course, now they have to re-branded from Global Warming, since we are actually heading towards Global Cooling) is a hoax.

Climate Change is a natural occurrence of Earth weather patterns, it's not man-made.

Yes, we need to scale back on polluting the earth, but climate change is not caused by man.

They are using that as a tool to TAX our endlessly over carbon emissions and to control your way of life.

Perhaps you will change your mind when you're being tax for the air you breath in 4 years.

Reading these posts is making me hungry, but the only thing I can afford is something off the dollar menu at McDonald's. Now that I am on the topic, why the hell do they call it the dollar menu in Manhattan when there are only 3 items that sell for $1???? Corporate greed cashing in on poor slobs like me... See you on the bread lines folks-wait bread is still $4 a loaf!

"I've no doubt Arizona state government can be as wasteful as any other. Arizona does have a few problems unique to some other states, like Florida and Nevada..."

Nevada is 49th, Florida is 47th.

So then it does appear to be a coincidence that some of the states with the biggest problems also have high taxes, doesn't it?

(Also, something cannot be "unique to some other states". The term you're looking for is "in common with". /pedant)

im glad i didnt listen in school. Ive lived most of my life fine without a degree. I knew those subawy adds were bullshyt. I am sucess already, and you cant give anything i dont already have. Go fuck yourself berkley your stupid unconfident hoe to sucessful confident hoe commercials dont fool me!

There really should be some regulation. Paying over $2k for a one-bedroom apartment is just ridiculous. It makes it impossible.

There is regulation... which screws with the supply & demand of open-market apartments... which contributes to rent-prices.

What about Arizona, which ranks 41st in tax burden. They've got 1.2 billion hole (10% of budget, compared to NY's 13% and CA's 14%)

I've no doubt Arizona state government can be as wasteful as any other. Arizona does have a few problems unique to some other states, like Florida and Nevada, with a massive logjam of unsold, or foreclosed homes. Arizona has also had to pour money into border patrol operations.

How many of us would feel better about our financial situation if we had been able to keep all the money that's been devoted to Social Security? We have been told, in so many words, not to plan to receive that money when we are retired. This is your government at work. Ostensibly to assist you - in reality to line their own pockets, and then walk away.

Yeh man..it's tough out here.

Sad news to hear how people are struggling like that.

Ditto. Rent is my biggest expense monthly, then comes the food and I hardly buy clothes.

"There really should be some regulation."

No fucking shit sherlock. It used to be called rent control and rent stabilization, something that greedy republican loving landlords and developers have been fighting tooth and nail to eliminate.

Taxes are high, yes--but the RENT is what really makes it difficult to get ahead here. There really should be some regulation. Paying over $2k for a one-bedroom apartment is just ridiculous. It makes it impossible.

"'CLIMATE CHANGE' (a hoax [...])"

Tell that to the polar bears you fucking imbecile.

"It's no coincidence that the states with the biggest budget problems are the ones with the highest taxation."

It isn't? What about Arizona, which ranks 41st in tax burden. They've got 1.2 billion hole (10% of budget, compared to NY's 13% and CA's 14%)