A Secession Plan Is Floated for New York City (can you blame them?) [View All]

[LynneSin]

http://www.nysun.com/article/70397

A Secession Plan Is Floated for New York City
By BENJAMIN SARLIN
Special to the Sun
January 30, 2008


Emboldened by Mayor Bloomberg's testimony in Albany this week that the city's taxpayers pay the state $11 billion a year more than they get back, a City Council member is offering legislation that would begin the process of having New York City secede from New York State.

Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat who represents Queens, is pushing the idea, and the Council plans to hold a hearing on the possibility of making New York City the 51st state.

"I think secession's time has definitely come again," Mr. Vallone, who spearheaded a similar push in 2003, told The New York Sun yesterday. "If not secession, somebody please tell me what other options we have if the state is going to continue to take billions from us and give us back pennies. Should we raise taxes some more? Should we cut services some more? Or should we consider seriously going out on our own?"

During a visit to Albany this week, Mr. Bloomberg called on lawmakers to give the city its "fair share" of tax revenue and said that the state took in $11 billion more from New York City than was returned in the state budget. Mr. Vallone says that the state's demands on the city in worsening economic times now make it necessary to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them

BTW, I can't blame them. I few years ago a study was done that show that BLUE states were paying way more in taxes than receiving them and yet the red states were paying far less but receiving way more. It was almost like Red States were the 'Welfare States' so to say.

I'm sure NYC could put to good use $11billion dollars. Hell, even with just half of that, it could be put to good use. Personally if NYC sets out on it's own it should become like Hong Kong, a city within the country of China that pretty much has it's own independant government/economy.