@AverageJoe1 saidPretty sure you won't bother to read it but here's the gist:
Like , in this very paragraph, how can we deal with basic needs, providing same, if no consideration is given to profit?
Like, like, from whence are needs derived to fulfill the needs of people who do not rely on themselves?
Like.
"New York is the greatest city in the world, but the people who make it so are being priced out. That includes small business owners, who account for over 90 percent of all firms in the city and who employ nearly half of all New Yorkers within the private sector. But too many businesses in our city are forced to close because keeping a business open costs too much and navigating our
bureaucracy is too difficult. That costs New Yorkers their jobs, small business owners their dreams, and our city the places that give it character.
The Mamdani administration will make it faster, easier, and cheaper to start and run a business. It will:
● Cut fines and fees for small businesses in half
● Speed up permitting and make online applications easier
● Increase funding for 1:1 small business support by 500 percent
Cut fines and fees for small businesses in half
New York City has a complex web of over 6,000 regulations and rules on small business. Some of these are important to protect workers, consumers, the environment, and safety. Others are trivial, but they take time for businesses to comply with, the city to enforce, and carry associated fines and fees. For example, it costs $105 in annual permit fees to have an industrial refrigerator,
a basic staple for many restaurants. To serve a frozen dessert, a restaurant has to pay a permit fee of $25 per year. While one of these fines individually may not stop business, it can cause unnecessary strain for hardworking small businesses.
The City has taken some good steps to ease fines, fees, and regulations, but we can go further. The Mamdani Administration will create a Mom & Pops Czar, reporting directly to the Mayor, with one goal: make it easier and cheaper to run a business in NYC. The Mamdani Administration’s
Mom & Pops Czar will ensure the city reduces small business fines and fees by 50 percent. That work will be focused especially on initial operational costs: a $1,000 registration fee is almost nothing to the City, but can be a significant barrier to a business opening — which means more time before staff get paid, before neighbors have another local shop, and before the city collects
taxes. The City Council has already led some important work reducing fines and fees, and the de Blasio administration reduced fines and fees on small businesses by 40 percent. But the Mamdani administration will go further, adding extra protections to not charge first-time offenders The Mamdani Administration will also increase a business’s ability to cure fees, taking a “fix, don’t fine” approach. This will allow us to work with our local businesses so that they address the root of problems behind many common fines and fees, rather than imposing a bill
right off the bat."
Does it sound like there is "no consideration given to profit". AJ?
@AThousandYoung saidSo what do you think?
Take capitalism to it's end and you get the Belgian Congo.
@sonhouse saidPlease refer back to my notes on proper debating. Like, ys, but…or maybe, but..,, Or if you propose this, then I simply must suggest that….
You mean the history your lord and master Trump is wiping off the face of the US? Killing DEI, removing any reference to slavery he can find.
BTW how is the Kennedy center doing now that Trump is king there?
I imagine you never thought about it but you might be surprised at what you will find.
@Suzianne saidWe were best friends over 40 years ago before he became famous, when we both lived in little apartments in Venice Beach, I was in a band called Southwind and played a lot of great gigs including the music used on a nationally broadcast show called the Lou Grant show.
Exactly.
I'd not heard much about George Winston, but looking at his career in Wikipedia, he seems right up your alley.
Thanks for the recommend.
@AverageJoe1 saidYeah you really got into it that time, so much depth there......
Please refer back to my notes on proper debating. Like, ys, but…or maybe, but..,, Or if you propose this, then I simply must suggest that….
@sonhouse saidSeems the no-show musicians, acting like spoiled brats, are ruining it. Is this cutting off your nose to spoiteyour face, or more like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.?
Yeah, my dearest friend George Winston RIP, played Kennedy several times and he gave me tickets to all his shows and the ushers were AGHAST at George coming on stage in stocking feet, which is how he liked to do the pedals.
Now Trump feigns surprise about the accolades by the controllers, whom he personally put in place. 'I am surprised and honored for my bla bla bla''
...[text shortened]... says 'I SAVED Kennedy Center from ruin, etc. etc. etc." but it is Trump now ruing it beyond repair.
Good, those losers will make more opportunities availablefor up-and-coming new musicians to play at the Kennedy. Funny how things always seem to work right if everyone stays on the straight and narrow.
@AverageJoe1 saidRight, spoiled brats not wanting to play music for a would be dictator. Trump had no right to stick his ugly face in that beloved center, it is his endless ego doing all that and now it may fail BECAUSE of Trump who doesn't know real music from a TACO.
Seems the no-show musicians, acting like spoiled brats, are ruining it. Is this cutting off your nose to spoiteyour face, or more like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.?
Good, those losers will make more opportunities availablefor up-and-coming new musicians to play at the Kennedy. Funny how things always seem to work right if everyone stays on the straight and narrow.
@no1marauder saidThank you, and I appreciate your explanation. A lot to take in, although I noticed that you never do mention the big business people moving out of NYC, which will reduce revenue from taxes, and of course cost jobs as they move their business to Florida, create jobs and make money for the state of Florida. The state of Florida has announced they may stop property taxes altogether. Ma’am, Danny will be raising property taxes. Not a word about that.
Pretty sure you won't bother to read it but here's the gist:
"New York is the greatest city in the world, but the people who make it so are being priced out. That includes small business owners, who account for over 90 percent of all firms in the city and who employ nearly half of all New Yorkers within the private sector. But too many businesses in our city are forced ...[text shortened]... g a bill
right off the bat."
Does it sound like there is "no consideration given to profit". AJ?
Meanwhile, I commend his hapless efforts , doing the things you itemize, a lot of which will, of course reduce the profit that you have referred to. And so as the profits are whittled away, I am imagine that a small business owners probably will see no need to continue when their profit margins fyop. A shop owner making 100,000 now probably will be making 60,000, and move to Florida, like waiters et al, for fresh starts.
Suffice to say that ma’am, Danny plans are somewhat shortsighted to reduce fees and other little small potatoes when you have a huge problem on your hands. You actysay trivial?
Reduce funding? Revenue will drop and he will reduce funding, I’m getting dizzy.. Let’s not forget all of the failures he will have with the bushing the rent control in those other four elements. You are dreaming if you think he can do all that. He does think he can. So he makes all the promises you list convince that he will not be a failure. He will be a failure. Socialism will be a failure.
While I have you, would you explain to the forum how socialism will work in this country, since it has never worked in any country and the people living under socialism will have nothing to work with except bicycles and long long tables for breadlines.
I myself will BE a socialist and probably will not have any problems.
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@AverageJoe1 saidMaybe you could explain to me why New York State with much higher taxes has $10,000 more in median income per person than Florida. https://moverdb.com/us-taxes/florida-vs-new-york-taxes/
Thank you, and I appreciate your explanation. A lot to take in, although I noticed that you never do mention the big business people moving out of NYC, which will reduce revenue from taxes, and of course cost jobs as they move their business to Florida, create jobs and make money for the state of Florida. The state of Florida has announced they may stop property taxes alt ...[text shortened]... ong tables for breadlines.
I myself will BE a socialist and probably will not have any problems.
@no1marauder said? Obvious. New York has a heavy concentration of high-paying sectors: finance, professional services, tech, media, etc, all high paying. Florida does not have near that, leans on tourism services. No comparison. Get real. NYC big w white collar.
Maybe you could explain to me why New York State with much higher taxes has $10,000 more in median income per person than Florida. https://moverdb.com/us-taxes/florida-vs-new-york-taxes/
And NYC HAS to pay more income cause of higher cost of living. Geez.
And all thecorp headquarters etc, global rich companies, all in NYC. None go to Idaho.
It is mainly diff types of workforce composition sand structure of economics, it is big time different.
Surely you jest, Financial institutions bleed money
@AverageJoe1 saidGee, so having higher taxes doesn't stop an area from having a slew of high paying jobs!
? Obvious. New York has a heavy concentration of high-paying sectors: finance, professional services, tech, media, etc, all high paying. Florida does not have near that, leans on tourism services. No comparison. Get real. NYC big w white collar.
And NYC HAS to pay more income cause of higher cost of living. Geez.
And all thecorp headquarters etc, global ...[text shortened]... re of economics, it is big time different.
Surely you jest, Financial institutions bleed money
Kinda deflates your whole "all the rich folks will move if taxes get raised" theory, doesn't it?
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@Suzianne saidYou can google it and see me live, well just a few months ago🙂 the show was called Guns, because the play date in 1980, just a few months back now🙂 was to play on St. Patrick day so they had the writers do an IRA gun running episode and we played opening stuff, music in the middle and music ending and my wife was the manager of Southwind ATT and got Lou Grant to put the name of our band in the closing credits and there was a wrap party afterwards where Lou hired and paid for our band to play at the party and I can assure you a good time was had by all, especially cut scenes which were frigging hilarious, jokes played on the actors and such. It was a heady time for sure. We played some great gigs around LA, including an audience of over 5000 at a governors campaign.
Hah, nice!
So we got our fifteen minutes of flame🙂 Now up to 525 tracks on SC and one just a couple back, an instrumental of the Coventry Carol, just acoustic guitar and dulcimer. It is getting nice comments too I might add.
Don't know if you watched Jen Psaki tonight, she took a two hour slot and among other little gems, she told about a screaming session of trump SCREAMING at MTG when she asked him to release the Epstein files and one more tid bit, on that same phone call on speaker phone BTW, heard by everyone in her office, she also asked Trump to feature the victims of Epstein to talk at the WH. His response: and I fking QUOTE, ''THEY ARE NOT WORTHY''.
That kind of tells the whole tale of the corruption going on over Epstein and a bunch of other stuff, and now the knew since 2021 there are not ONE million files but 5.2 MILLION files just miraculously found which is utter BS since there are people, lawyers who saw just one of the MAXWELL files final page number 2.7 MILLION.
Now the house is going to issue contempt of congress to Pam Bondi and her deputy and probably more folks than that AND they are going to cut funding to DOJ where they will be unable to file BS charges of mortgage fraud against other folks besides the ones we already knew.
So things a tiny bit looking up and there is a fierce race for US senate in Texas where one of the democrats generated THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLARS by people all over Texas, Red, blue, Purple areas combined, not some Elon Musk kind of single donor like Trump sucked up.