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IRequirePants t1_jdyux74 wrote

Reply to comment by fafalone in New Yorkers overwhelmingly support bail changes ahead of state budget deadline: Poll by Grass8989

> Computer technology got us the lowest murder rate in a century.

COMPSTAT certainly helped.

I guess the difference here is that "War on Drugs" directly funneled money into police. It isn't tangential. It's directly related.

Now, if you want to say the War on Drugs had massive amounts of waste and other related societal harms, then sure. Over-incarceration, "stop-and-frisk" violations, etc.

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Rottimer t1_jdyto2i wrote

Reply to comment by SleepyHobo in New Yorkers overwhelmingly support bail changes ahead of state budget deadline: Poll by Grass8989

NY and NYC is one of the highest taxed places to live in the U.S.. Billionaires and Millionaires can choose to move right now if they wanted to and yet, NYC has the highest number of billionaires, not just in the country, but in the world. Something tells me we have some leeway to tax them more.

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fafalone t1_jdyt29l wrote

Reply to comment by IRequirePants in New Yorkers overwhelmingly support bail changes ahead of state budget deadline: Poll by Grass8989

Computer technology got us the lowest murder rate in a century.

What, you can't just impute causation to whatever has a correlation?

Studied directly, the war on drugs has been an epic disaster, and crime fell entirely independent of it.

The murder rate fell despite the war on drugs funneling trillions to gangs and cartels, making them more powerful than ever.

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spare_oom4 t1_jdysp1s wrote

Reply to New York City is absolutely gorgeous by ProGamerMatt

There’s a conspiracy going on. Check out what was posted in r/chicago

Chicago is absolutely gorgeous

Spent all day in Chicago with my family, and It was amazing.
Metra was quiet and clean. Bagels and coffee , delicious. Art museum, absolutely amazing. Millennium park , beautiful and full of awesome people. Walk to the river, mind blowing. Italian food , delicious . Taxi to the Metra station, great experience. All and all 10/10

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AceContinuum t1_jdysicy wrote

Reply to comment by caspiam in New Yorkers overwhelmingly support bail changes ahead of state budget deadline: Poll by Grass8989

The wealthy folks who are already carefully tracking their days in NYS will continue doing that even if their taxes stay the same. And they will continue doing that even if NYC taxes fall dramatically. They will continue doing it unless NYC's taxes fall to Sioux Falls, SD levels, which is simply not realistic. So this group of people can be entirely discounted in any talk of income tax policy. They are not going to change their residency under any realistic income tax model.

The wealthy folks who are spending 183+ days per year in NYC now are going to keep doing that even if their taxes go up a few percent. This group of people wants to spend 183+ days per year in NYC and can afford to do so. These folks also aren't going to change their residency under any realistic income tax model.

The previous commenter suggested that there is a group of wealthy folks who will suddenly "discover" the 183-day rule if taxes go up a few percent. The idea that there is any sizable number of wealthy folks whose accountants and lawyers haven't told them about the 183-day rule years ago is ludicrous.

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