Here is obvious waste:

1. Swarms of “Parking Enforcement Agents,” who rip-off our community all day long, with real and imagined “Transgressions.”

2. Totally-Unreal salaries, perks, and pensions for City, State, and Federal employees.

Those are just two items that come immediately to mind. I’m sure you can come up with tons more of waste and pork, all loaded onto the backs of a rapidly-dwindling workforce, increasingly taxed.

The Government will soon kill the “goose that is laying the gold!”

So what services do you want to get rid of????

How about programs that provide support for thousands of frum Jews (WIC, food stamps, section eight, medicaid and especially the extension for children, Pell grants. Indeed, since the income tax has progressive rates, the frum community is probably making a profit (we get more than we pay)

Perhaps we should get rid of trash collection and require every homeowner to dispose of his own trash (or pay someone to take it to the landfill)?

Why should transit riders get subsidized? If it costs $5 a ride for the subway, charge it? Do people who own and drive automobiles get a subsidy? Indeed, why should any intercity roads be free?

Why have a professional police? It’s relatively new (since the mid-19th century). If you get mugged – you catch the crook and bring him to the court house and pay for a lawyer to prosecute.

If people wanted fewer services and lower taxes, all they have to do is vote for candidates who favor such a platform. But when people whine about services, they need to unsderstand they are demanding higher taxes.

One might aruge that the current depression is the sole result of people feeling entitled to a life style higher than they could afford, whether it be fancy weddings or government programs or ludicrous paychecks well beyond the value of what they produced.

That’s not socialism, or capitalism. It’s naarishekit.

The MTA is raising fares.

NY City is raising water rates.

NY State is raising taxes.

Businesses are going bankrupt.

Employees of remaining businesses are taking salary cuts and unpaid forced “vacations.”

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?–DOES THE GOVERNMENT KNOW WHAT IT’S DOING?–DOES IT CARE?

Choosing LOWER TAXES and MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING is not possible on a state and local level.