New York City, the nation's 51st state?

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth
I am willing to bet that up state NY would be glad to see NYC cut lose.

$3.5 Billion in tax revenue is about 75% of upstates GDP....

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
New Yorkers will probably support it. I hear they don't want to be associated with the folks from upstate NY 😉

you heard wrong.

 

[Sid59]

im all for city-states .. prolly have load of import and export taxes.

 

[DaCurryman]

I'm in support!! Go NYC!!

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: Cyberian
OK - I live in NY State, outside of NYC, and my sales tax and State Income Tax is the same as that of a NYC resident.
Wouldn't the reason that most large cities generate more in taxes be due to the fact that they just have more residents?

BTW - My Real Estate taxes (Western Suffolk County) are obscene compared to those in Queens County.

actually I think the biggest reason is income. I remember reading somewhere that manhattan pays about 50% of the state's income tax (I can't verify this number at all, thist is just what I think I read).

OK - That makes extremlely good sense.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
Cyber - As far as I know (and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I'm not) you do not pay 8.25 percent on every purchase you make. That is decided by each city.

Most of upstate is probably lower, but Nassau and Suffolk counties are both at 8.25%

 

[Demon-Xanth]

LA isn't that stupid. They like thier cheap water. Imagine if they had to pay what people living beside the lakes that are the sources pay! 🙂

Northern and Souther California is a symbiotic relationship with the north having the natural resources and the south having the industry. That's the main reason why it's never been split. You'd have one state starved for resources and another that can't afford to pave it's roads.


NYC just doesn't realize what benifits that it gets from having the rest of the state along with it. Those state parks that they vacation to don't support themselves. "Hey lets go camping!" *next day* "Park closed due to lack of funding! What the hell is up with that?"

 

[Kevin]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
LA isn't that stupid. They like thier cheap water. Imagine if they had to pay what people living beside the lakes that are the sources pay! 🙂

Northern and Souther California is a symbiotic relationship with the north having the natural resources and the south having the industry. That's the main reason why it's never been split. You'd have one state starved for resources and another that can't afford to pave it's roads.


NYC just doesn't realize what benifits that it gets from having the rest of the state along with it. Those state parks that they vacation to don't support themselves. "Hey lets go camping!" *next day* "Park closed due to lack of funding! What the hell is up with that?"

You've got it the other way around. NYC puts a lot more in then what it recieves. There are also loads of City parks out there. I'm not sure whats considered a state park...

 

[rh71]

Long Island should be a state... we're bigger than Rhode.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: Cyberian
OK - I live in NY State, outside of NYC, and my sales tax and State Income Tax is the same as that of a NYC resident.
Wouldn't the reason that most large cities generate more in taxes be due to the fact that they just have more residents?

BTW - My Real Estate taxes (Western Suffolk County) are obscene compared to those in Queens County.

actually I think the biggest reason is income. I remember reading somewhere that manhattan pays about 50% of the state's income tax (I can't verify this number at all, thist is just what I think I read).

OK - That makes extremlely good sense.

Cyberian, what's your taxes like there? My parents in Plainview pay $9000/yr. I live in the next town over and I pay only $4500. I heard it gets up to $12k/yr. in some parts of Suffolk.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
Cyber - As far as I know (and I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I'm not) you do not pay 8.25 percent on every purchase you make. That is decided by each city.

Most of upstate is probably lower, but Nassau and Suffolk counties are both at 8.25%

Nassau is 8.5% sales tax. :|

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: syzygy

a recent poll says 70% of nyc folk support recession.

jeez, I don't think I know anybody in support of the recession 😕

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: syzygy

a recent poll says 70% of nyc folk support recession.

jeez, I don't think I know anybody in support of the recession 😕

The NYC bums and panhandlers were most of that 70% who voted. 🙂 They wanted more friends.