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To: paltz

Indeed, we’ll see. I imagine she talks about “hunters” because it makes it easier to defend the Second Amendment to moonbats.

I gather she is pro-abortion, and otherwise qualified to be a NY Democrat. So this is the issue they are pushing her on.

Her strong point is that it’s only fair to have at least one politician representing upstate NY, which has been taxed into the ground and had its economy killed in order to support the city with the welfare benefits it is accustomed to.


10 posted on 01/27/2009 9:24:45 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Believe it or not, upstate is a massive net tax recipient from downstate. While downstate has most of the welfare recipients, downstate also has almost all of the high earners who pay most of the state income tax. Upstate also has plenty of prisons, roads, and state parks which provide local jobs and orders to local businesses, funded from downstate tax dollars.

(Indeed, you can make this even more narrow: state income taxes on people who work in Manhattan, regardless of where they live, provide an economic surplus which pays for state-funded services for those who work in every other borough and county in the state.)


12 posted on 01/27/2009 9:32:58 AM PST by only1percent
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