Posted on 05/06/2020 7:15:57 AM PDT by John W
New York City's new coronavirus cases are dropping, but Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that he is concerned that the city will have difficulty reopening considering the money that has been lost while being slammed by the disease.
"How are we going to afford to restart our city if right now we are literally out of money?" the mayor said on CNN's "New Day." "(We are) $7.4 billion in the hole because we've lost so much revenue. It's only going to get worse. How do we pay for all the basic services we need, all the people who have been the heroes of the crisis, police, fire, EMTs, health care workers, educators? There's no money."
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I see we combined the two ideas, the five boroughs of NYC and maybe some of the surrounding communities get spun off as a new state, and the separate borough Can become run like independent cities with Certain shared services such as fire, police, etc.
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