NYC has it's own financial regulations. The state has its own state financial regulatory authority.

NYC has it's own complex web of small business regulations, and inspectors that overlap with the state.

NYC has a complex restaurant dlsafryy rating system that literally doesn't mean anything.

In no other place in the county does a business operator need to handle 3 separate sets of regulations.

Moreover NYC regulations are almost always written to be far more complex and difficult to stay on top of that any other state's regulations. Because the city uses fines on small business owners as a tax base.

NYC has it's own massive and complex welfare system. Why can't we have one at the federal level and one at the state level only? Why do city taxpayers need to pay an additional giant pile of taxes to support systems that spend more on the bureaucracy than they do actually helping anyone.

The city has a fucking racial justice department.

And I can literally go on forever.

"Creating jobs" is literally something politicians brag about.