[fhayek]

As an upstate New Yorker, I must concur. No matter how much we bitch, no matter how many non-liberals (I can’t really say conservatives) we elect to the legislature, no matter how much debt is accumulated, we can’t overpower New York City. It is a lost cause.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

De Blasio said people earning between $500,000 and one million dollars a year would see their taxes increase by an average of $973 a year. "[W]e do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories," he said.

First cousin to the "I'm not robbing you to make you poorer, but to make me richer" line.