New York City Real Estate News

https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-elections/council-candidate-attributes-loss-to-trump-supporters Amazing.  Another reason for nonpartisan general elections.  

https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/de-blasio-nonprofit-got-donation-after-city-inked-deal-with-developer/ Amazing. 

See  https://youtu.be/oxPDfYxkuU0?t=12300 Remember the Seinfeld episode about renting a car. See the similarity between a company taking but not holding reservations and our city council creating many commissions but not holding the obligation of the commission.  A report based on the people's will. Jerry: But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation. Agent: I know why we have reservations. Jerry: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them. This is exactly what we can say about the budget hearings and the commissions that are created. We created a property tax advisory commission to take the public thoughts and organize them.  Instead we get a commission for "pomp and circumstance" City Council:     I know why we have commi

See this report at https ://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-data-book Also the chart show business tax decline while the rest are growing.  Highlights of this year's  Data Book During Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, the IRS collected nearly $3.5 trillion, processed more than 250 million tax returns and other forms, and issued almost $464 billion in tax refunds. In FY 2018, close to 58 million taxpayers were assisted by calling or visiting an IRS office. The use of IRS website, IRS.gov, continued to grow with almost 608.8 million visits. Of the taxpayers who participated in the 2018 Comprehensive Taxpayer Attitude Survey (CTAS), 85 percent said it is not at all acceptable to cheat on their income taxes, and nearly all (95 percent) believe it is a civic duty to pay their fair share of taxes. Additionally, most taxpayers (80 percent) are satisfied with their personal interactions with IRS. See the  2018 CTAS report (PDF) .

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayor-aoc-new-york-newspaper-floats-idea-of-congresswoman-succeeding-de-blasio This is another reason we need resign-to-run we cannot have people playing musical chairs with political offices.   See  https://ballotpedia.org/Resign-to-run_law And  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resign-to-run_laws Ralph

NYC employee growth under this recent mayor is up a lot. From fiscal year 2014 (the last year of the Bloomberg Administration), headcount is projected to increase 11.7 percent by the close fiscal year 2019 to reach 332,285 positions. It is projected to reach an all-time high in fiscal year 2023. source:  https://cbcny.org/research/growth-nyc-employee-headcount The Growth of NYC Employee Headcount Fiscal Years 2004-2023 Look at the chart for yourself: https://cbcny.org/research/growth-nyc-employee-headcount