Why the heck was New York City not prepared for this? The tax the heck out of every resident.

The 37% bracket doesn't kick in until a single filer makes $510k ($612k filing jointly). Doubt those folks are complaining about the price of tolls.

Preparedness is done in the months and years prior.

Mayor plus Bloomberg and Cuomo all have failed. Very obvious.

Not true, since AMT would have in all likelihood kicked in way before

OldGuy666 wrote:

The 37% bracket doesn't kick in until a single filer makes $510k ($612k filing jointly). Doubt those folks are complaining about the price of tolls.

Those people will likely have a death tax where the government gets 50% of their money when they die, though.

One thing we should all be able to agree on is that taxes are too high and the government wastes too much money.

Trump has totally dropped the ball on this and is living in a fantasy world regarding his response. However, Cuomo is getting an unfair pass in my estimation...people are praising him because he sounds good at his press conferences and talks a good talk. Why weren't NY schools closed sooner? Why wasn't NY put on stay and home orders earlier? He's gotten no help from the Federal government but he let things get out of hand and could have mitigated on the front end if he had acted sooner on social distancing orders.

"The risk to New Yorkers from coronavirus is low and ... our preparedness as a city is very high," Barbot said at a Feb. 2 press conference supporting the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade and Festival. "There is no reason not to take the subway, not to take a bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday [Feb. 9]."

But they aren't alone. Canada's prime minister did a whole Chinese New Year Meet and Greet when the first cases were coming out.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-nyc-leaders-endangering-public-coronavirus

remember "the risk is low"? wrote:

"The risk to New Yorkers from coronavirus is low and ... our preparedness as a city is very high," Barbot said at a Feb. 2 press conference supporting the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade and Festival. "There is no reason not to take the subway, not to take a bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday [Feb. 9]."

But they aren't alone. Canada's prime minister did a whole Chinese New Year Meet and Greet when the first cases were coming out.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-nyc-leaders-endangering-public-coronavirus

Tucker Carlson was one of the few journalists who got it right early on. In early March he had the guts to speak out against his own network and president. Kudos to him then and now for this.

Cuomo could have purchased 15,000 ventilators at half price in 2015. Instead he invested tax payer money in a failed solar company and a lightbulb company in California. People are fleeing NY in record numbers. Cuomo and the shite head Mayor from NYC are the reason.

deblasiocharlene wrote:

Cuomo could have purchased 15,000 ventilators at half price in 2015. Instead he invested tax payer money in a failed solar company and a lightbulb company in California. People are fleeing NY in record numbers. Cuomo and the shite head Mayor from NYC are the reason.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS. Additionally, Trump sent Cuomo 2000 ventilators, all of which ARE STILL SITTING IN A WAREHOUSE while Cuomo cries on TV. When asked about this, he confirmed it's true and said they are in a warehouse because they don't need them yet. Cuomo's 30,000 number is a estimate for the worst possible estimate of the APEX which is still likely months away.

Meanwhile, Trump is making companies produce ventilators. So, NY already has more ventilators than they need right now, and Trump is making sure more are on their way. Sounds to me like Trump is handling this as well as anyone could have.

I'm not sure we can say that the demented turnip is doing a good job yet.

I agree it's great that he lurched away from his ludicrous argument that the virus was a evil media hoax. And it was great that he let Fauci talk, and didn't fire him for contradicting his idiotic lies.

And it's good that he's finally working on getting companies to produce ventilators.

But ventilators are something that will be needed soon, yet in the future.

What about all the health care workers and emergency responders that already, RIGHT NOW, and for some days in the past, do not have enough masks? This reuse of masks is very stupid and dangerous, all because we were not prepared at all.

Why hasn't the demented turnip done anything about that? That's systemic failure that has been happening already for at least a week. Where the heck is any leadership on that critical issue?

I’m positive we can say demented Trump has handled this terribly and has not protected the American populace as Presidents are supposed to do. Thousands of people are going to die because of his denial and inaction.

The narrative on the right is constantly changing as well. It started with complete denial of the problem. Then Covid-19 started being a problem, so the narrative became Trump is a war time leader and will get us out of this. Then they discovered that the draft dodger war time President has no solution other than stalling the economy, so then the narrative became the solution can’t be bigger than the problem. As the problem continues to grow, they are realizing that a reboot by Easter is ludicrous so now the narrative is to blame the states. I’m sure the conservative braintrust isn’t busy at work coming up with the next narrative.

Typical lack of debate skills.

Wigins has the decency to present level headed arguments backed with facts.

All you can do when you're not in awe of his rationality and expert debate skills is sling mud at his character.

If Wigins had decency & a level head, that truly would be news.

I'm sure they'll figure something out.

Many red states, despite being propped up by NY generosity, somewhat enjoy the idea of NY suffering. However, now they are beginning to fear that they're next -- and indeed they are, judging by how even now many of them aren't taking it seriously.

I wonder how NY will response to the unwillingness to help them in their time of need? They really must be questioning why they're paying more than their fare share in federal taxes.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

“The gub’mint’s gonna stomp all over our heads, and scream C0ck-a-doodle-do.”

The late John Candy in JFK.

Sally Vix wrote:

It is supposedly the greatest city in the world. Why is Andrew Cuomo asking the federal government for aid when the state should have done the same to protect the citizens? The tax rates are like 65% - Why the hell does NYC not have masks and ventilators and everything else? Why the heck have they needed to rely on the federal government?

Because it's not cost effective to prepare for a once-a-hundred year pandemic that could have a giant range of different medical conditions to treat. That's like asking why the Netherlands aren't prepared for an asteroid hitting the Earth because they have the highest tax rates.

I often wonder if you're really as dumb as the questions you pose? Couldn't you have sat and pondered this question yourself for 30 seconds and figured it out? Maybe you should start doing that. Before you post anything on letsrun, just give 30 seconds of thought to it first.

That is not really the question. Cuomo is asking the federal government for aid when the state should have done the same to protect the citizens. The Federal Government would not prepare for a 100 year virus either.