What do you propose? Interfering with the free market to the extent that a place like NYC has to the point that you have no middle clbutt? That's EXACTLY what has happened in NYC. They have this stupid system of rent control -- which I believed in for many years when I first lived there -- and do all these other things that make it great for the bottom. There are also a lot of reasons why people at the top love the city. But the people in the middle, who pay a disproporationate burden of their take home to support this stuff, just get tired after a while, and do like I do and leave. My wife and I saw no reason to stay in a place where you either have to pay scads to live in a district decent enough to have a public school worth going to, or pay scads for a place, and still have to pay more for a decent education for a child. It's just not worth it. Right now, there are a diminishing number of reasons for companies to do business in NYC, and that will only increase over time. What will be left is a high-cost environment that no longer generates enough revenue to support the high level of services. It will be a government-based version of the pension crisis facing manufacturing companies right now. Toussaint and his ilk won't care because they'll be fat and happy already, but the future NYC generation will be paying for it for years. Seemed to me we would have learned SOMETHING from the 70s, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what.
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