Gov. Cuomo wants to be philanthropic with your money: NY pays more than it gets edition

Day in and day out Democrat politicians and #FakeNews media types demand that you pay more taxes.

That's their contribution to helping the poor; they keep their wealth for themselves.

Essentially those folks want to be philanthropic with your money.

While conservative religious people give far more of their own money and time to help those in need leftists crow about how much they care.

The reality is it's not "charitable" to demand that other people pay taxes that are laundered through a grossly overpaid government work force and that finally trickle down to those in need.

If we take the total amount we spend on the poor and divided by the number of poor people we find that the poor should be making a fortune. But they're not.

Why?  Because government workers who get paid far more than you take up a big chunk of your tax dollars that are supposedly helping the poor.

How does this relate to Cuomo's latest whining about how NY sends more dollars to the Federal government than they get back while the situation in Kentucky is the opposite?

The answers is that the reason NY pays more is that NY is richer.

The average salary in New York State is $92,813. The average salary in Kentucky is $47,029.

Democrats like Cuomo constantly harp on how the rich should pay more. They support America's highly progressive tax code and they constantly demand that you pay more taxes.

Yet now Cuomo is complaining that New York, full of richer people, pays more to the Federal Government than it gets back while Kentucky, which has poorer people, gets more from the Federal Government than it pays in.

This either shows that Cuomo is ill informed or that he too is lying about his concern for the poor.

The fact that NY pays more than it gets while Kentucky pays less than it gets is precisely the sort of attack on income inequality that Cuomo is always saying he endorses.

But the reality is that due to Cuomo's mismanagement of NY finances the state is $137B in debt; that was before the China virus hit.  He views the whole COVID19 episode as a way to get the rest of America to get him out of his fiscal bind.

The bottom line is that Cuomo, like most Democrat politicians, is not too eager to give his money, or his states, to help the poor. Rather he wants to pass laws that take your money and give it to those who he thinks deserve it.