Comments on: Flatbush: Civic Activist and Experienced Journalist Runs for Brooklyn Assembly Seat

By: apushatayid

apushatayid — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:36:04 +0000

· Introducing legislation to give reduced fare MetroCards to food stamp recipients

Why? How will this help them lessen their reliance on food stamps?

· Returning responsibility for setting the city’s water rates to elected officials to prevent onerous increases

Just like the elected officials prevent onerous increases in tolls, and other city fines and fees. Yeah, good one!

· Fighting to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and indexing future increases to inflation.

Speak to the small business owners in the district you want to represent to see how it will affect them.

· Promoting a reasonable tax on millionaires to generate revenue and provide needed programs for district residents

He is proposing to tax the districts millionaires to create programs in the district?

· Introducing legislation to fight drunk driving by banning the sale of cold beer at gas stations

Maybe, but it is pretty clear that we can not legislate against stupidity.

By: yosse

yosse — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:43:40 +0000

just another tax and spender

By: yitzchokm

yitzchokm — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:27:08 +0000

all I can say is yuck!
Platform point 1, MetroCard:
What kind of people take the subway? Middle and Low income residents. If the price is lowered to accommodate the poor, Who will pay the difference? another tax on the middle class?
Last I checked, the MTA has to make money to survive.
Platform point 2, Water:
How is returning responsibility for setting the city’s water rates to elected officials going to prevent onerous increases? You’re not even sitting in office and you’re already proposing tax increases on the middle class. At least at this point, the water rates are sort of set with the notion of supply and demand. If/when elected officials get involved, it will be viewed as a simple tax.

Platform point 3, minimum wage:· Fighting to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour will destroy the middle class economy. The myth otherwise has been debunked a long time ago.

Platform point 4, minimum wage: tax on millionaires to generate revenue: another idiotic idea. in the entire state, there are less than 53,000 millionaires (by income, 2/2011). in the entire state, the increase in state income will be negligible, while encouraging the continuing “Millionair Flight” from NY.
Platform point 5: Beer
Might be a good idea (not sure if its a “platform” idea). At this point there’s no correlation between drunk driving and buying beer at a gas station (as far as my limited research goes).

By: csz

csz — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:20:45 +0000

I guess points 2 and 5 may be worth something…