Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 6 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: A government of the slum lords, by the slum lords, for the slum lords. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Eric Adams Cuts His Brother’s Duties After Giving Him Top Police Job - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Amid concerns of nepotism, Bernard Adams will be executive director of mayoral security, not deputy police commissioner. He will earn $210,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Adams: No Remote Learning Option in NYC Schools for 6 Months | The 74 WWW.THE74MILLION.ORG Updated It will take roughly six months before New York City schools can add remote learning options, Mayor Eric Adams told elected officials Wednesday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I want off mr Adam’s wild ride (but at this station) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Promise made, promise kept (I almost posted this in the nft/crypto thread but it’s a better fit here for this crossover) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I don’t hate this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 'It's a crime': Mayor Adams says turnstile jumpers should be... NYPOST.COM "If we start saying it's alright for you to jump the turnstile, we are creating an environment where any and everything goes," the Mayor Adams warned. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 the new broken windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 I don't know what the data actually says about this but I do know there was a clear difference in NYC before and after they started tackling petty crimes like turnstyle jumping. NYC had definitely drifted back to 80's and 90's levels of dangerousness and that's why Adams got elected. Personally I think the pandemic and lockdown exacerbated the xtime problem, but here we are. I say all that to say that in not exactly mad about the turnstyle jumping thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Doesn't Oz live in New Jersey too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 Dude doesn't want to have to release his New Jersey tax returns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 ‘Cheese is like heroin’: New York mayor raises eyebrows with drug comparison | Eric Adams | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Eric Adams admits to lapses in his veganism as he launches campaign to get New Yorkers to eat a more plant-based diet Boris Johnson says people should work in-person again because when he works from home he gets distracted by cheese WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM Johnson addressed the UK's cost of living and said that it was time to rejuvenate city centers by having people return to work in person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 (BoJo was born in NYC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 7 hours ago, Jason said: (BoJo was born in NYC) Wait he’s American? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 16 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Wait he’s American? He was until I think five years ago. He renounced over the US requirement for citizens to file tax returns no matter where we live, he's actually a poster child for why it's so dung, he hasn't lived here since he was IIRC five years old, no other country would make a citizen file tax returns in that situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 It's fucking stupid that American citizens have to file taxes if they live and work overseas. End the madness! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Isn’t there a wage minimum where if you’re below that you don’t have to file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 32 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 21 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: It's fucking stupid that American citizens have to file taxes if they live and work overseas. End the madness! We denounced Eritrea on the floor of the United Nations for distorting its diaspora for having the same exact policies on this as we do. There's only a couple of other countries that pull this shit and IIRC one of them is North Korea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 I also know greencard holders for whom this is THE reason they don't apply for citizenship. It makes it impossible to ever fully leave once you have citizenship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 21 minutes ago, Joe said: Isn’t there a wage minimum where if you’re below that you don’t have to file? No. You always have to file. There's $100k of exempted income but there can be enormous differences in what's considered taxable and what's not. This comes up a lot with retirement plans for instance. If you're getting $100k a year in a retirement plan that's non-taxable where you live then the US will want you to pay income tax on that $100k for example, it's not just a flat "the first $100k is exempt". It's also a massive time, effort, and money burden. If you're living in say the Czech Republic do you think it's easy or cheap to find someone with right mix of legal/financial and language skills to reconcile US and Czech taxes? If you're a billionaire then you probably have people on retainer anyhow who can handle it for you, but for someone right around the $100k line it's a BIG burden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Like a lot of this shit is ridiculous and was sold as getting the rich to pay their fair share but does basically nothing to get money out of them while massively screwing regular people. When FATCA was passed a lot of American expats got kicked out of their local banks because otherwise the banks would have had to become unpaid IRS enforcers, and it can still be a problem getting a local bank account because of this. Also FATCA, the IRS went after a bunch of Canadian-American dual citizens for failure to file. They were citizens because they'd been born here while their parents happened to be in the US, but many had never even been back. They hadn't filed because they wouldn't have had any reason to think they needed to find out if they needed to file because in any other civilized country it would be a "no duh you don't live here and have no income derived from here so of course you don't". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 NY1/Siena College poll finds pessimism about NYC's future and Adams WWW.NY1.COM A majority says the city is headed in the wrong direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Dirt bikes and atvs in a city are goddamn annoying. As long as no ebikes are in there this is fine 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 11 hours ago, Jwheel86 said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 3 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Dirt bikes and atvs in a city are goddamn annoying. As long as no ebikes are in there this is fine There are also problems with large groups of young men swarming them riding the wrong way, intentionally playing chicken with motorists, and just all around creating a public safety and noise problem. Video Shows ATV Riders on Grass Near Washington Monument WWW.NBCWASHINGTON.COM Video obtained by News4 shows a number of people on dirt bikes and ATVs riding on the National Mall on Sunday night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 52 minutes ago, Jason said: There are also problems with large groups of young men swarming them riding the wrong way, intentionally playing chicken with motorists, and just all around creating a public safety and noise problem. Video Shows ATV Riders on Grass Near Washington Monument WWW.NBCWASHINGTON.COM Video obtained by News4 shows a number of people on dirt bikes and ATVs riding on the National Mall on Sunday night. wtf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Eric Adams Admits Owning the Brooklyn Real Estate He Claimed to Have Sold WWW.THECITY.NYC Mayor refiles five years of financial disclosures after THE CITY found he’d never divested. And he still owns the Prospect Place co-op. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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