I agree with you 100%, but if the city is going to be a Marxist toilet, then everyone ought to pay the price.
Most families do not regularly use the services provided by their local government. Police are used most by disrupters and lower income neighborhoods. I don't believe you will find many firefighters fighting fires in the better neighborhoods of NY because they attempt to keep their investments up, mass transit is used most by those owning no cars. Thus, it is my contention that public services are used most by those who do not pay any tax or very little tax.
I do not live in NY but in my local community. My property taxes cover my local schools and city expenses. I pay for trash bags and limited bag numbers of contracted trash pickup (pickup used to be provided). I pay a fee if I haul my own trash to the city landfill, I pay or do my own shoveling of the city owned sidewalk (which used to be provided and is required within 24 hours of a snowstorm).
I have wondered what my tax dollars are purchasing for me since our police is now dispatched from another city (regional function) as well as 911 (fee is collected on my phone bill). I guess it is for the zoning laws and the library. Maybe those who use the police, fire departments and schools should be paying the tax for them, the library could charge an admission fee and city officials could eliminated. That would be a good way to downsize government and take the social tax programs out of our society. I guess we are beyond educating the country kids that were needed on the farm to make a living.
Wonder how all those who hate the Ponzi Scheme of SS would like such a proposal? Might they see they are also partaking at the well?