How Dems keep sucking up taxpayer cash even as – Latest News
While Democrats nationwide cheer socialist calls for to raise taxes, they concurrently exhibit daily how incompetently they spend the money they already take from us.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s fish-eyed smirk in his “tax day” video — smugly gloating, “We’re taxing the rich!” — was simply probably the most excessive latest instance of Dem greed.
He insists high-earners “pay their fair share” to fund his goals of free buses, day care and low cost groceries.
Yet on Monday, The Post supplied a painful instance of how authorities merely wastes the billions it already squeezes from taxpayers: Turns out town rented and constructed out dozens of day-care facilities beneath Mayor Bill de Blasio that, more than 5 years later, are sitting empty.
The price tag: a whopping $100 million.
And taxpayers are nonetheless shelling out tens of millions a yr in rent and utilities for these vacant areas.
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It’s not solely clear what occurred (with authorities, it by no means is!), but it surely appears town didn’t trouble to conduct primary market analysis: Despite Mamdani’s claims on the contrary, it appears the public will not be frantically determined free of charge city-run youngster care in each nook of town.
Can there be a more convincing illustration of a service higher left to the personal sector, whose money is at risk when no prospects show up?
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Meanwhile, dozens of elected Democrats, together with Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Queens) and Dan Goldman (Manhattan) are pushing for a 5% annual wealth tax on the richest 260,000 American households to attain “basic fairness,” says Warren.
It would possibly help Warren’s argument if her get together weren’t so reckless with the trillions of {dollars} it already spends, with huge cash swirling down the drain as blue states and cities lurch from one wasteful, fraudulent program to a different.
California paid out more than $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic, at the least $1 billion of which went to people in jail.
Minnesota allowed Somali social-service organizations to steal billions via bogus food and child-care applications.
Politicians like Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, who courted Somalis for votes, stood by with their eyes closed and their arms over their ears — blind, deaf and dumb concerning the looting they facilitated.
Yet all of them demand more money.
Sorry: The blue state model of high taxes and costly social companies supposedly for the very poor is strangling hard-working, struggling middle-class Americans who inevitably wind up getting fleeced.
Every different establishment in society is required to offer worth in exchange for money.
Only authorities is entitled to squander billions with impunity — after which have lefties cry poverty, hike taxes and . . . rinse and repeat.
When do taxpayers get aid?
