Posted on 04/28/2018 2:27:00 PM PDT by nwrep
BS. I own a small business in the People's Republic of New York and I had to PAY taxes. First of all, self employment tax as I'm an LLC sole proprietorship and filing schedule C as a passthrough. Then the regular business taxes.
Companies have bent over backwards to throw money at women to avoid lawsuits; it benefits all because now I get to work like a woman. Haven’t worked those unpaid hours considered the norm for salaried employees for YEARS...
Here in the NYC metro area it is understood that cities can only survive if the welfare class is expelled. Not only are they a huge financial burden on taxpayers (who have to provide EVERYTHINBG for them - including free breakfast AND lunch in the public schools), but the deals offered to employers to entice them to “re-civilize” the place usually require them to hire X% of their workforce from locals - who are woefully short on job skills and civilized behavior.
Jersey City is leading the way in NJ cities’ revitalizations, and is done via pushing out the welfare class and replacing them with imported white-collar workers. The remaining welfare population is safely quarantined where they can’t rob or murder “People Who Matter”.
Normalization of mental illness.
Certainly explains why I saw NO kids in San Francisco; not only do deviants no breed, but normal would be foolish to expose their children to them.
“Yes; but women STILL don’t get equal pay for equal work.”
I haven’t seen a woman DO equal work that didn’t get equal pay.
That is Fing ridiculous. That’s like a $20 million dollar 401k!
Thank you to both....Was raised in upstate NY and moved out when I was 21 and still never saw NYC. Stopped on vacations from CA to see friends/relatives but that was from an airport to their places and back before going upstate...saw some of the Bronx a couple of times, through the city to NJ to see Liberty Island one time, to the old Polo Grounds in 1955. I like that picture that was posted. It’s really a beautiful skyline and the last place in the country I would have picked. I thought maybe San Diego with a building that resembled the Federal prison but not with the water that close...
I think you are confusing retail banking with what was in the article. The retail banking jobs are bottom feeder jobs, no question, but the article is referring to investment banking enterprises like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley. Please note the difference between retail and investment banking. Thanks.
I knew a lot of people that didn't have even one, including us until 1956. 😀
My father lived in Jersey City from some time in the 1980s until he died in 1999. I watched the transformation of that city take place. I was also astonished at how high his taxes were for a rundown 4 apartment building. Below is a site for an interactive map. New Jersey has the highest RE taxes, with Texas at #6. Below NJ are IL, NH, CN, and WI, in that order.
https://taxfoundation.org/how-high-are-property-taxes-your-state/
I second that remark. I live in Crown Heights, which is being overrun with yuppies. The Orthodox Jewish community can't find affordable places to live. I myself am forced to share a 3-bedroom with roommates because the 1-bedrooms cost almost as much.
I predict that a lot of religious communities will repopulate -- and revive -- the American small towns, which offer lower cost of living and more wholesome, insular environments. It's even happening right now, as I see many ads and articles in Jewish magazines for "out-of-town" communities.
Of course, we know what happens then. These places will start attracting the liberals in search of community, because the "hip" urban areas offer nothing in the way of civic cohesiveness.
Remember this one: Thou shall not covet.
(Unless your a democrat, then it’s to be celebrated.)
Coveting is the foundation on which Socialism is based.
>>*Nothing* on the cost of govt? Taxes\fines\fees? OSHA\EPA\reg. red-tape?
>>1950’s it took a SINGLE bread-winner for accomplish:
Homes were small by today’s standards and built without vapor barriers, hurricane roofs, etc. They required storm windows and screens because they didn’t have central A/C. They had one, maybe two duplex receptacles in each room. They had one bathroom.
Cars were simple and didn’t produce the hp/liter that we get now or have the thousands of dollars in entertainment and safety features we pay for now. The seats weren’t as comfortable and they used 2/45 for air conditioning.
College was not that expensive then because the Big Ed’s student loan scam didn’t exist. But, also, parents of kids of average intelligence or lesser means didn’t even try to save to college. Their kids was going to trade school or the military, or marrying some guy who did.
Vacations weren’t the “trip of a lifetime” they must be today.
And the big difference: your phone cost almost nothing. But today, a family of 4 pays $200 a month for phones, and another $100 for internet, and another $100-200 for cable TV.
Taxes/fines/fees add to that, but OSHA and the EPA were not all bad. I remember when industrial workers routinely lost fingers and the river smelled liked creosote and sewage and you could smell it form 20 miles away. Today, I live a mile from it and there is no smell at all.
And you failed to raise your products cost to cover them?
Are you STILL in business?
Taxes in Jersey City are high (it is the seat of my county); imagine how bad NYC is when people and companies flee NYC for Jersey City. Also, much of Jersey City’s comeback is fueled by foreign workers, not Americans; they’ll tolerate a lifestyle most of us would find unacceptable (packed into such apartments, for example).
“Yes; but women STILL don’t get equal pay for equal work.”
That has become the most commonly repeated lie in America. Surely you know better.
That’s why corporations have fired all their men: they can pay women less.
You have to make a lot of money to get away fron the niggas, white trash and other riff-raff. Sad, but true.
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