Posted on 05/19/2022 1:00:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed into law a $220 billion budget riddled with wasteful spending, including $220 million for free Medicaid for illegal immigrants and a $600 million subsidy for a new Buffalo Bills stadium, according to the New York Post.
Federal law prohibits federal tax dollars from going toward Medicaid for illegal immigrants, so New York taxpayers will pick up the tab for healthcare for up to 20,000 illegal immigrants living in the Empire State.
Those making less than $18,754 would qualify for the program, though many other details regarding eligibility have yet to be announced.
Hochul, a Buffalo resident, pushed for her pet project of giving $600 million to gift the NFL a new stadium, and is part of why the budget was delayed for days.
In addition to state funding, Eerie County will contribute $250 million to the project, making it the largest public subsidy for a stadium in the United States, according to Bloomberg. The NFL and the Bills will only pay $550 million toward the new stadium.
The New York State budget also gave $350 million in capital funding to the New York City Housing Authority, which is struggling financially, as thousands of residents are behind on rent payments.
New York state already has some of the highest debt in the nation. The last thing New York needs is more wasteful spending that continues to burden future generations.
That’s what the majority of NY’ers vote for.
Hochul will be gone next election if a moderate Republican runs against her.
Keep voting for these assh oles. You deserve every damn bit of it.
[yeah, I understand that rural NY is a fiefdom of the leftist nobility, like places in CA]
It’s not just rural counties, NYC and Buffalo were the only metro areas won by Cuomo last election. Unfortunately NYC itself makes up half the state population. Without NYC, NY would be more like Ohio or PA.
OK, I did the math. $220,000,000/20000 = $11,000 per year per illegal. That comes to $917 per month that the state of New York is giving to illegals and not to its citizens. This is in addition to whatever other benefits the illegals are drawing, eg. welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, etc. etc. Someone should try and figure out how much money each illegal is costing the taxpayer.
Good to know! Thanks!
20,000 illegals in New York? On which block? Needs a couple more zeroes.
No, many New Yorkers hate the current democrat one-party rule. The state is controlled by the communists in NYC. The illegals, the minorities and the unions are still enough of a bloc to ensure that this stupid bitch and her former boss get elected. Most of upstate New York is conservative. Many in the suburbs are too, but they keep silent because they fear repercussions. Remember that DeBlasio only won with 17% of the voter base that turned out. That is not a majority.
And the state GOP is as corrupt as the democrats.
I am so glad that almost half of my earnings are confiscated from me and are going to given to illegal aliens while my health insurance premiums, deductibles and co-payments have increased every year since Obamacare was shoved down our throats.
They voted for it. Now dont move to a red state and bring your trash voting habits with you.
Hey no problemo. All New York folks need to do is self-identify as illegal aliens and behold, free health care.
We are entering the end game here. Soon there will not be enough funding to pay for this insanity and no ho headroom to borrow more money to float the system. We are at the end of 20 year run of economic insanity and the well is just about to dry out. We have reached the end point of Cloward -Piven
Did the nation vote for BiteMe...?
NYC now has RCV for a reason.
I know people on Medicaid.
The quality of care sucks.
The quality of care sucks.
That's not true in my home state of Mississippi. Medicaid pays better than most other insurance plans so Medicaid recipients typically get better care than most regular insurance. A good friend is a pharmacist and he loves medicaid because it's the best paying insurance out there for medicines. Most insurance plans cut his reimbursement to the bone but medicaid pays well.
Medicare, however, sucks. They don't pay much of anything. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.
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