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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Most of the state’s tax base comes from NYC, and cutting checks to municipal governments (usually with money they got from the federal government) is like half of what state governments are even for

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      1 month ago

      Cool, shame it’s off-topic.

      Nobody here is talking about the sources of the state’s budget. We’re talking about the fact that “taxing the rich” gave NYC 1/24th of the needed money.