De Blasio’s Recovery Task Force Follies

1 posted on 04/28/2020 7:05:57 AM PDT by SJackson

I left the NYC area many years ago.

One of my better decisions.

2 posted on 04/28/2020 7:09:01 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)

Coming soon: People who sign a loyalty pledge to Mr. & Ms. Ceaucescu will be allowed to work.

3 posted on 04/28/2020 7:34:37 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Quick don't be left out, hide in your house and join the George Soros Kill the Economy Club)

“What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too.”

Wow. The mayor wants to invent zoning. What will come next?

The issue, of course, is that the mayor is not speaking honestly. What he really wants is for the city to be able to seize control of buildings already zoned, permitted and constructed under the city's byzantine laws and regulations, and unilaterally repurpose them based on his immediate political needs. The "law" is the whim of the sovereign. Citizens have no rights against government. The scrap of paper from the city can be torn up by the city at any moment.

4 posted on 04/28/2020 7:44:06 AM PDT by sphinx

It sounds like everybody in New York City wants to rip off everybody else and call it “socialism”.

Of course we know how it always ends—some pigs are more equal than others.

5 posted on 04/28/2020 8:30:03 AM PDT by cgbg (New poll: post elderly voters like Biden's experience as Wilson's VP fighting the Spanish Flu.)

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