The problem is that your personal opinions don't pay my multi-thousand dollar deductible for which I'm paying as a taxpayer for you not to have.

Healthcare costs have increased beyond inflation. The taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for paying that for you when we have our own increased healthcare costs to pay for. You don't deserve better than the taxpayers who pay your salaries.

NYC pubic sector unions opposed universal singe-payer because they wanted to have better healthcare than your average New York taxpayer. I’m supposed to have sympathy for them?

Nobody would construct a building where they’d lose money because all of the tenants are low-income and only pay 25% of market rate. Getting $2,500 for a $3K apartment is likely sustainable (they’d more than break even on that); getting $750 likely is not. The developer would likely go bankrupt if all units cost that little.

Ultimately, we need to reduce market rates across the board, where profit margins for developers are lower, but the idea that people are entitled to “free stuff” just because of their income isn’t going to fix anything on a macro-level other than for a select few people that win a lottery.

There’s a 300,000 square foot former university on 400 acres about 100 miles north in Dutchess county on the market for $16 million. There are hundreds of rooms there that could house migrants for a fraction of the cost of housing them on some of the most expensive land in the planet earth.

If they were able to work, there are also plenty of farms that could benefit from migrant labor up there.

Also, the more money you make, the more money you pay for “affordable housing.” Somebody who makes $100k would pay $2,500 in rent, whereas someone who makes $30k would pay $750. Let’s say market rate is $3k, so it’s losing $500 vs. losing $2,250.

They need to hire more judges and make their asylum decisions in days rather than months. If granted asylum, they could start working and contributing to society, and if denied, they’d be deported. Either way, it’d help everybody, as nobody benefits from being in this limbo situation.

Also, aren’t there lower cost of living areas to house people who aren’t able to work? It doesn’t benefit them being close commuting distance to office buildings with high-paying white-collar jobs, and as a result, the market value is super-high.

No, people waiting their asylum hearings are in legal limbo. People in jail or out on bail aren’t convicted criminals; they’re alleged criminals.

People who own cars are richer on average than your average New Yorker, and if you can afford to pay $600+ per month for parking and $500+ a month in insurance just because you think you’re too good for the “disgusting trains” that millions of New Yorkers take everyday, then you are a privileged elitist.

I’m all for creating financial disincentives for people in Manhattan owning cars too.

If you made it so it was mostly only commercial vehicles in Manhattan, they could make their deliveries quicker because they wouldn’t be stuck in traffic, which would likely more than offset any fees that they’re paying.

Lower Manhattan wasn’t designed for cars. Congestion pricing isn’t about preventing access to the city, but rather about making people who think that they’re better than everybody else taking public transit pay for the true nuisance that they’re causing by blocking up the roads.

No, after 5 years, they make well over $120K all-in comp when you include pensions and fringe benefits, which are equal to over 100% of the base salary. And before you try to argue with me, I’d be completely fine with all EMTs making $100K if they eliminate all pensions, replacing it with a max 5% 401K match, and only paid up to $1K a month in subsidies to healthcare plans that you could buy at market rate on the NY State healthcare marketplace, which would stop after they stopped working.

I do. The truly “working class” can’t afford parking in downtown Manhattan and has to take the “disgusting trains.” You’re a privileged elitist, who wants to lower the quality of life for others by jamming up the roads. At bare minimum, you should pay for the inconvenience that you’re causing others.