De Blasio: NYC needs billions in federal aid or city economy 'won't come back'

https://www.foxnews.com ^ | 5/17/2020 | By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

[RomanSoldier19]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has claimed that his city requires $7.5 billion in federal aid to get back on track after being crippled by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands of residents and shut down much of the city's economy.

President Trump and other Republican leaders have resisted handing out too much aid out of concern state and local leaders are hoping to be bailed out of economic trouble that began well before COVID-19 ravaged the nation. De Blasio insisted on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that this is not the case for his city, which needs the money to recoup losses needed to pay city workers.

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“That’s revenue that’s gone that pays for cops, firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers, it’s gone," de Blasio said. "And there’s no way I’m going to get it back.” De Blasio said he expects even greater losses, and that the city’s economy “won’t come back without a stimulus.”

[RomanSoldier19]

It is magical, a price to release the hostages, matches unfunded city liabilities: the state is not much better.

After increasing from $1.4 billion to $8.1 billion under former Mayor Bloomberg, pension costs have continued rising under de Blasio. Based on the mayor's latest proposed financial plan, the pension appropriation in de Blasio's fourth budget will be $1.5 billion (19%) above the level in Bloomberg's last budget. By fiscal year 2021, according to the mayor's latest projections, pension costs will reach $10 billion, or nearly 15% of city-funded spending.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/defuse-city-pension-bomb-article-1.3114183

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

In before the NY Daily News “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline.

[dfwgator]

Drop dead!

[coaster123]

New Puke City.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Maybe he can get the 1 billion from his wife, she “lost” it, check the Cayman Islands

[Autonomous User]

I loved that Headline. Time for Trump to use it.

[Ann Archy]

BYE BYE HELLHOLE and DENIZENS of the HELLHOLE!

[Bell Bouy II]

Good

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Boxcar Bill...ask your wife where the money is?

[dfwgator]

Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.

[MtnClimber]

You broke it, you fix it. On the other hand, the voters got what they voted for so don’t cry.

[SkyDancer]

You destroyed it. >You< figure out how to bring it back. CA wants the same thing, taxpayers from other states to bail out your incompetence.

[Bommer]

Tax the illegals they sooooooo love!

[chris37]

Sounds like a personal problem, Warren.

[chief lee runamok]

"..de blasio has claimed that his city requires $7.5 gazillion in federal aid.."

what de blasé meant to say.

[Revel]

Maybe he and Cuomo better stop all the leftist liberal give aways to illegals. Stop the Free college Crap. And the list goes on. Don’t expect the rest of the country to pay for all of that.

[RomanSoldier19]

Locusts move to green fields.

[frank ballenger]

In the grim movie Fail Safe the President knew evacuations of millions of innocent New Yorkers about to die was impossible.

He asked before NYC was going to be voluntarily bombed by Soviet nuclear weapons and a trading chip to contain the accidental war “Is there anyone or anything absolutely necessary to our country that we should move out before the explosions?”

The aide, sheepishly, corporate records will be vital to the economic recovery, sir.”

[monkeyshine]

Raises local taxes. Make sales taxes, like, 15% or something. Raise cigarette taxes from $9 a pack to $15 a pack. Raise liquor tax from $3 a gallon to $9 a gallon. Raise taxicab fares, and add a 25% uber surcharge to all rides in the city. Double subway and train fares. Raise the hotel occupancy tax from 18% to 44%. Oh, and tack on a 25% surcharge on Broadway shows (only 20% for off-Broadway, and 15% for off-off Broadway). And make the minimum wage $30 an hour so people can afford to pay these taxes. Is a sarcasm tag needed?

[frank ballenger]

Complex sentence meant the US would bomb NYC on purpose to convince the Soviets we didn’t mean to bomb Moscow.