What is Cuomo's motive for all of this as alleged? Why would you want to gratuitously shut down the MTA? Why would he want to give greater subsidies for highway tolls upstate than subway tolls in the City? The whole thing doesn't quite hang together for me. I bet Cuomo is glad Silver is gone however.
Person A:
White guy, 2 kids, house mortgage, swing voter, makes $120k a year, lives in Nyack, drives a car, uses the subway 1 every two weeks or so.
vs.
Person B:
Black woman, 3 kids, renter, votes for Democrats 100% of the time, lives in Brooklyn, makes $45k a year.
Who does Andrew Cuomo care about? Who does the media, the powers at be and society at large care about? Obvious, right?
If Andrew Cuomo can take from Person B and give to Person A, he will. He worries about person A's property taxes, and bridge tolls, and wants to get his approval. He doesn't care about Person B. He takes her vote for granted and he realizes that she's been so beaten down by the system that she don't even care or pay attention.
Well said. And I really despise subsidies to the undeserving, un-poor. And what I despise typically makes for excellent politics, and both parties do it - a lot. If I ran things, the transfer payment system would be revised - drastically. But I won't be running things, so the undeserving, un-poor are safe pretty much with their transfer payments, including myself. Boo!
