{"id":186885,"date":"2013-09-05T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/05\/not-enough-bullets-63\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:48:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/05\/not-enough-bullets-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the New York City Mayoral primary, Bill De Blasio, the New York City Public Advocate, is leading in all the polls.<\/p>\n

In fact, he is leading by enough that, in a 9 candidate race, he has a shot to clear the 40% requirement in a runoff, is rather telling.<\/p>\n

It is heartening that in the home of Wall Street an unabashed liberal appears likely to be the next Mayor of New York.<\/p>\n

One of his central proposals is to, “Increase the city\u2019s income tax on wealthy residents earning over $500,000, from 3.86 percent to 4.41 percent<\/a>,” (PDF) to fund universal preschool.<\/p>\n

If you do the math, you will realize that this means an additional $2750.00 in taxes for someone earning a million dollars a year, basically chump change, particularly amongst the well to do in New York.<\/p>\n

However, it appears the suggestion that the rich and very rich toss a few more pennies toward public resources has hurt the feeling of rich self absorbed assholes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio first proposed taxing the rich so every child in the city could attend all-day preschool, it was October and he had support from fewer than 10 percent of Democrats in polls.<\/span>

<\/span> Now he leads the pack. And some of the wealthy New Yorkers who\u2019d pay more under his plan say it bewilders and offends them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, it offends them, their delicate feelings are hurt.<\/p>\n

F%$# that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows lack of sensitivity to the city\u2019s biggest revenue providers and job creators,\u201d said Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a network of 200 chief executive officers, including co-Chairman Laurence Fink of BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world\u2019s biggest money manager. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am so concerned that we are being insufficiently “sensitive” to the parasites from Wall Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

E.E. \u201cBuzzy\u201d Geduld, who runs the hedge fund Cougar Capital LLC in the city and is a trustee of Manhattan\u2019s Dalton School, where annual tuition tops $40,000, said de Blasio\u2019s plan \u201cis the most absurd thing I\u2019ve ever heard\u201d and \u201cnot a smart thing to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, because someone who can afford $40,000.00 for a year at private school, will be absolutely destroyed by a 0.55% increase in their taxes on income over \u00bd a million dollars a year.<\/p>\n

De Blasio first presented his tax plan to a quiet audience attending his Oct. 4 speech to the Association for a Better New York, a real-estate developers\u2019 civic group. He called on them, as some of the city\u2019s wealthiest individuals, to provide about $532 million for universal all-day pre-kindergarten and after-hours middle-school programs.<\/p>\n

About 20,000 of New York\u2019s 68,000 four-year-olds get city-funded full-day pre-kindergarten classes, with 38,000 enrolled in three-hour programs and 10,000 in none. The added pre-K slots would cost roughly $342 million, de Blasio said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s rather telling that George Soros has contributed to De Blasio campaign. I think that he earns a decent salary.<\/p>\n

Additionally, that raving Bolshevik Ben Bernanke has endorsed increased pre-school and after school programs as well.<\/p>\n

What a bunch or useless self-absorbed jerks.  I would call them schmucks, but a schmuck has a head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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