The total annual expenses for 2020 is $17 billion, and a lot of them are fixed costs:
The cost of additional service is utterly trivial compared to the $2 trillion already passed through congress.
Yes, exactly.
Which is why I was asking you for a source for your claim that the MTA is currently operating at a tenth of its normal expenditures.
The amount of money passing through Congress is irrelevant, because the MTA isnât getting any of that money.
It is clear that the city and state officials were clueless about the potential spread though their mass transit systems.
This is not, so far, something you get through casual contact. It has to be prolonged exposure. -Mayor de Blasio, March 2 see video at 15:20
The comments are echoed and amplified by a city official starting at 23:55:
There is no need to do any special anything in the community. . .Ride the subway. Take the bus. Go see your neighbors.
I understand your need to paint the government of New York in a bad light, to distract from the federal response (or lack of one).
But none of this has anything to do with what weâre talking about.
WuWei
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Because of the 2016 results. Arenât dem voters supposed to be better?
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JayJay
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The ânon-TDSâ explanation isnât Trump is a cutting edge creative thinker who was challenging his scientists to think out of the box for new therapies to COVID.
A stance supported by frantic after the fact Googling for anything that sounded even remotely like what Trump suggested we investigate.
WuWei
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I disagree. His job is NYC.
Camp
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NY has done a fine job hanging themselves.
The one population that needed to be isolated and they send seed cases right on in as the medical directors protests fell on deaf ears.
I wish he would do his damned his job in NYC where it belongs and stop demanding & begging the rest of the country to pay for his incompetence and malfeasance.
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New York city and state officials have arguably done a poor job of protecting their own people. Their basic assumption was that the disease would be like SARS or Ebola. Those diseases were relatively difficult to transmit, and the symptoms were obvious when anyone got infected.
In contrast, the new coronavirus is much more contagious, and a large fraction of the people with the disease can be contagious with little or no symptoms.
These mistakes have cost both the city and the country dearly in lives lost and huge damage to the economy.
NJBob
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The taxes paid by NYC and NYS to the rest of the country far surpass what comes back.
In general red states are the takers, not the makers.
Camp
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So no need for a bailout then.
New York is a tax producing machine.
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NJBob
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OK, show me the numbers.
NYC has been, and will continue to be, the economic center of the U.S.
NJBob
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No, NYC pays to keep those non-productive red states afloat.
Camp
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Good.
No bailout for them. They generate a disproportional tax revenue, so fine.
You canât brag about being a big tax payer and then stick out your hand for more dough.
NYC got a lot of ventilators and hospital beds and testsâŚHow much is enough?
It was NYC that dragged down the rest of the country for a so-called shutdown. They should pay the red states for the favor.
It wonât be the first time either. We have some really stupid folks in the Gene Pool. People every year from injecting and drinking disinfectants.
Actually Trump raising the question may well save some lives preventing more Darwin Awardees since his own experts quickly pointed out it would be a bad idea to inject liquid disinfectants and the following ranting by the Witless Demâs and their cohorts in the media.
conan
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Another test in Miami/Dade county anti-bodies test showing similiar results as two California tests.
Sound like anywhere between 4.4 percent to 7.9 percent already had it.
You can read it here.
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