To: Olog-hai
It makes for good politics but it’ll never happen. Staten Island’s last secession movement ended in the 1990s when the residents of that borough learned how much higher their taxes would be without the city’s property tax revenue from Manhattan’s priciest neighborhoods.
3 posted on
08/29/2023 2:21:58 PM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
To: Alberta's Child
That’s not what happened. A majority voted for secession in 1993, but the state legislature stymied the effort.
6 posted on
08/29/2023 2:25:45 PM PDT by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Alberta's Child
It makes for good politics but it’ll never happen. Staten Island’s last secession movement ended in the 1990s when the residents of that borough learned how much higher their taxes would be without the city’s property tax revenue from Manhattan’s priciest neighborhoods.I never trusted those studies.
7 posted on
08/29/2023 2:26:27 PM PDT by
FreeReign
(Ron - "vassal of the state apparatus")
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