Any short-term success they claim is the result of looting the treasury. Once they run out of other people's money, their systems collapse.
“Any short-term success they claim is the result of looting the treasury. Once they run out of other people’s money, their systems collapse.”
Thankfully here in NJ we’ve already reached the point of running out of money; we’ve begun downsizing our bloated public sector to compensate. The cities are paying a steep price, as they haven’t been self-sufficient in decades; they no longer simply rape the suburban and rural taxpayers as they had in the past. Things are falling apart, but that is necessary to start over (hopefully it isn’t already too late). The high costs here were tolerated because the high wages made it acceptable, but many of those good jobs have left permanently - not just to other states, but many to other countries altogether.