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BiblioPhil t1_iwz6f8d wrote

Reply to comment by Throwawayhelp111521 in Federal Monitor Who Watches Over Rikers Island Has Made $18 million from NYC Taxpayers...and counting by mattkatz00

He sounds like any conservative paper's(e.g the Post's) reporting. Put a large figure in the headline implying it's an elected/appointed public official's salary.

Adds fuel to the "out of control gubmint spending" narrative to make your proposed solutions (cut funding to public works, infrastructure, regulatory agencies and social services, while implementing tax cuts for businesses and the rich) seem favorable.

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Throwawayhelp111521 t1_iwzaag8 wrote

>He sounds like any conservative paper's(e.g the Post's) reporting. Put a large figure in the headline implying it's an elected/appointed public official's salary.

I was thinking the opposite, that he sounded like a naive or faux-naive lefty reporter. At the extremes of the political spectrum, there are similarities.

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