Posted by Bret4207 on February 19, 2014 at 04:21:35 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: It's about time. posted by JayinNY on February 18, 2014 at 16:11:58:
No Jay, NY does not want to chop off NYC. The report that is circulating is that several groups are circulating petitions asking to get the process started. This has been going on for a few years now. The 80/20 report is a poll taken by one of those groups. There is no statewide ballot initiative or anything like that in play.
Now, for myself, I think the group the news reported on doing this has the wrong idea. They want to chop off NYC, LI and an area 35 miles or so north on NYC. Wrong. You chop it off about 5 miles north of Albany. You get rid of Albany, the NYS Constitution, the Adirondack Park, all the state Authorities, ORDA, start selling off the millions of acres of state land to settle our debt, move the Capitol to maybe some little town like Lowville, Elizabethtown or Stone Arabia and put up a good big pole barn for the State Gov't to meet in once a year. Our new Constitution would recognize private property rights, the 2nd Amend and limit gov't. The Gov's mansion can be a double wide and the food service will be either catered by Stewarts, Nice and Easy, McDonalds or you can brown bag it. The taxpayers on NY will pay for our Gov't reps phone bills and stamps, the rest is up to them. They will meet for 5 days each year. The Governor will make $100K a year, be expected to provide his own vehicle and to maintain his office and taxpayer funded home. That's still a sweet gig. No unfunded Federal mandates would be enforced, employed or recognized. A 5% income flat tax would be established to pay for state services- no deductions, no exemptions. If the state can't run on that, too bad.
I think that would be a good start.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 04:24:15 02/19/14.
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