Not Ithaca. sob. What we ever do? /s
Ithaca, the strangest small “city” I have ever drove through
Milford, PA comes in 2nd.
However, why don’t they just cut programs and government employees? Do they really need that many coffee drinkers and donut tasters on the pay roll?
I am bathing in schadenfreude right now...
> He says the only way the city can survive is with federal assistance.
How about Gov. “white knight” Cuomo?
And besides that, liberals are always so proud of the utopias that they created, that being out of money is simply impossible in a utopia since it is always so perfect in every possible way...
Guess we’ll have to dump some of the dead wood in city budgets across the fruited plain. Probably 50% could handle the important business, while various “Outreach” and “ Diversity” employees would never be missed.
Slash and burn away all the social consciousness programming for starters. This is going to be a problem for every state and city some more than others. They are all going to cry for taxpayer bailouts. Think of how much NY and LA are 'losing' in sales tax revenues, or what CA is 'losing' on gas taxes alone. Income tax revenue will also surely be way down. When we're on the other side of this the fight will be vicious and a rethink of our values and how money is spent will be essential.
Sorry, Ithaca....we’re all tapped out.
Get assistance from your State, Ithaca! Why should New Mexico, or any other state, rescue you when the whole country is suffering? These people are incapable of seeing anything/anyone beyond their tiny spheres.
University towns like Ithaca have been living in fantasy land for decades and never plan for tomorrow. They should pitch in for the country instead of demanding help.
Time to revisit the concept of small government.
Confiscate Cornell and sell it off.
Does Cornell pay property taxes, or any sort of taxes? Just wondering. Perhaps the peole.who run Cornell could make a donation to the city?
The article cites declines in sales revenue and parking tickets. What is the City of Evil selling? And just how many parking tickets do they issue?
No worries, someone should tell Ithaca that they can always just raise property taxes, gas taxes, rich white people taxes, tax taxes, tax tax taxes... because, as a famous liberal leader once stated, “the era of big government is over”...
As goes Ithaca, so goes Yaphank.
Maybe they should raise tax rates.
Isn’t that what they usually do when taxpayers are out of work?
Isn’t that the compassionate thing to do? Rats are the paragons of compassion, right?
Of course.
We are restricted to essentials only.
City and state government should have the same rules.
Fire department. law enforcement, water. sewer and if applicable, electric power.
Street maintenance only when the street or bridge is a safety hazard.
In the Great Depression, they actually plowed up asphalt roads and returned them to dirt roads.
But they will not. They will foreclose on your house in a blink before they will take a cut.
Cornell is sitting on a $7 billion endowment. Maybe he can ask for help from there.
I love a story with a happy ending...
