• New York bill proposes splitting the state into three independent districts
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What do you mean "handled on a municipal level"? Every municipality and county "handles" its own affairs already. It's more a matter of getting funding from the state, which always goes to NYC. And how can you say "American law is inflexible and a change would never be allowed" when this whole article is about a potential change.
Eh, I'm a foreigner, don't know much about your system apart from an impression... But if that's the case, then I'd say that it's more of an institutional problem, then in that case the district system could work.
Isn't the vast majority of funding also collected in NYC? If you divide the state into three districts, funding that stems from within a given district will be reinvested within that district. I don't see what would compel the NYC district to fund the others. This doesn't seem to solve the problem at all. Heck, given that rural areas typically already get more in funding than they give in taxes, cutting them off from the urban areas that contribute to a large part of their funds would make matters even worse.
My assumption is they would be more reliant on federal aid.
when you're so libertarian you loop around to being a communist
Extreme horseshoe theory.
I think this your way of saying you agree with me. :P Also, there's a certain irony to this since the political compass thread showed like a 1/3 of this forum is made up of libertarian socialists
This has nothing to do with land mass itself, it is the fact that New York City issues are massively different from New York issues He said about representation It's about having two separate sets of issues
If the problem with the current situation is that most tax revenue is collected in the New York city region and is mostly spent on city issues, wouldn't shifting the tax burden onto the federal government just lead to the same situation but with federal funding going to federal concerns over local issues rather than city funding going to city concerns over local issues?
So splitting states based on opposing political support? This seems familiar.. Oh. https://www.history.com/.image/t_share/MTU3ODc4NjgzMjQwMzEwNDk1/image-placeholder-title.jpg http://s8319.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/article-0-0D713D9900000578-669_634x405.jpg
Hardly. Your posts tend to read to me as very defeatist when I read them. Your prose tends to be more purple than other posters because I dunno, you think it make you sound more objective. But it just makes a tiresome attitude tiresome to read.
As far as I can tell, it would be even worse for them since New York on a federal level will functionally be one state, with just 2 senators and same amount of representatives. I can only assume federal funding to "New York" will have to be split between the 3 entities somehow. The bigger question will be whether they decide or DC decides.
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