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Monday, March 5, 2007

Anonymous said...: Nicole Gelinas is making a very cogent case for raising luxury apartment and townhouse taxes.

The funds raised should be deployed to provide more affordable and better services to the working class. Many of these people, travel in daily, from far out of Manhattan, far from their families, at all kinds of inane hours, to serve the monied folks of Manhattan's elite. There are large areas outside the city core, where many of the workers of Manhattan must live, because New York is prohibitively expensive, that do not have affordable transportation services. If we are to tear up the city, once again, to build the second avenue subway, and other enhancements, lets also be concerned about how difficult and expensive it is to commute into Manhattan.

For all kinds of reasons, transportation, pension benefits and health plans for municipal workers are a necessity, not a luxury, if the city is to maintain services to the rich.; March 6, 2007 at 11:52 AM

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