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littledeconstruction: annekewrites: juniperstreet: phoenix-ace: sale-aholic: apostolos94: sarcasmsuitsme: sale-aholic: Link: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/nyregion/free-lunch-new-york-city-schools.html?_r=0&referer=https://t.co/IGujgTPtNe?amp=1 And the rest of NY state pays for the bill of feeding 1.1 million childen, many of whose parents already get full SNAP + WIC benefits…If they’re feeding the school kids M-F for Lunch (or Lunch & Breakfast) those parents who receive food stamps to support their children’s diet - should lose a proportionate amount of their kid’s food benefit. Sorry but that’s how the state pays for some of it. Can y'all imagine being this angry/annoyed by children being fed? ^^^ ONLY a sad and miserable person would say or post something like that. I love how they pretty much made that up just because they got upset poor kids might get some help… Fuck any upstate New Yorker who cries about “the city” getting benefits paid for by “the rest of New York.” FUCK YOU HARD. Now let me tell you why. Upstate New York pays diddly in taxes. And here’s a fact straight from Wikipedia: “Two-thirds of the state’s population lives in the New York metropolitan area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island.” The average working household in the Buffalo area pays about $3,000 in property taxes with a median income of $47,000 while the average working household in Nassau County (Long Island) pays upwards of $10,000 in property taxes with a median income of $58,000. That’s just property taxes, that’s not including school taxes and other local taxes. NYC, Long Island, & their bordering counties pay the bulk of the state taxes which is why they receive services back to them. NYC & Long Island also pay heavily into municipal service taxes while the further you go upstate they opt not to - part of why they think everyone pays as little as they do. Yet every racist north of Westchester has convinced themselves that none of the southern part of the state is paying anything in taxes. They loudly and proudly proclaim at their town meetings that minorities and Jews are “playing the system” and are draining the state dry. I’m sick of upstaters crying the blues over the pennies they pay into the state coffer. They do not constitute the majority of New York State taxpayers, downstate does. They do not have any compassion for anyone who isn’t white, most of upstate is composed of former sundown towns that are still dangerous for POC to live in if there is no community to protect them.They have huge socio-economic problems (meth, opioid crisis, cancer clusters from abandoned factories, brain drain) that would bankrupt those counties just like in red states if not for the economic powerhouse of NYC & Long Island keeping the state afloat. I don’t want to hear any upstater gnashing their teeth about brown (and white and other) children getting a hot lunch unless they’re prepared to have their Medicaid/Medicare and opioid addiction services pulled. I’m a white Upstater and co-sign this 100% people will be like “waaaaah how dare you ask me to pay $2 extra a year in taxes so children can eat”listen, y’all: Scrooge was the villain Tell us you’re a hateful, greedy, abusive asshole, without saying you’re a hateful, greedy asshole. -- source link