On the Sidewalks of New York is a weekly feature at Human Events wherein Jacqueline Toboroff, a native New Yorker, will share her observations and candid commentary on the goings-on in our nation’s largest city, New York City, and the state of the environment.
Proposal 1: Environmental Bond Act of 2022
- Allows New York State to go further into debt and add a further $4.2 billion through a bond issuance for environmental projects with total dominion over which donor or group gets the contracts
- $250 million will go to improving stormwater systems, $200 million for wastewater infrastructure, $1.5 billion for climate mitigation and renewable energy projects and $500 million for zero-emissions school buses
- Elizabeth Moran, an Albany-based policy advocate at EarthJustice, says while this is a move in the right direction, New York state will need to invest far more when it comes to addressing the climate crisis
Statement of Values for City Government
- De Blasio came up with these alongside the Racial Justice Commission headed by civil rights lawyer Jennifer Jones Austin, vice chair of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, as a salute to BLM
- These are supposed to address systemic racism towards blacks which doesn’t exist
- Racial Equity Plans and Office
- All city agencies will be forced to create “racial equity plans”
- A new Office of Racial Equity, funded by taxpayers, will enforce racial equity planning
- True Cost of Living
- The "true cost" will be based on "actual household income required to meet the essential needs of people living in New York City," and needs like housing, childcare, food, transportation, healthcare, clothing and shoes, hygiene products, etc.
If these 4 proposals pass, they go into effect immediately
- The beneficiaries will be government employees (more hires at hire salaries, task forces, distribution of taxpayer money) donors, and relatives (the bridge to nowhere, THRIVE, cost taxpayers $1 billion dollars, shoveled off to de Blasio's wife and doubled the constituency it was supposed to help, those with mental disorders). The losers will be the taxpayers.
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