Our taxes fund the fiefdom over which the government rules. The average taxpayer is nothing but a cash cow politicians use to buy votes from the grifters, many of whom are here illegally, who live off the taxpayer, and those same politicians live large at the same taxpayer’s expense. I paid a big tax bill for 2025. I doubt that any of it will pay for the services you named.
I am going to sound like every black-pilled libertarian/conservative ever here but whatever.
The system is functioning -exactly- as intended. The intent is to steal as much money as possible and for the people involved to do so with as clean a conscience as possible. But if it can not be done with a clean conscience then it will be done with a dirty one.
The reason Social Security is deep in debt is because they want to be. That debt represents money that recipients got to spend that someone else has to pay for.
New York isn't broken, it is extraordinarily successful. It steals billions of dollars every year and the recipients love it. A swarm of parasites has descended on NYC. NYC didn't have the immune response necessary to fight them off. Now it's being sucked dry. The parasites see this as an absolute win. When NYC has nothing left to steal they will move on to the next one.
The system is working great for the people it is supposed to be working for. The parasite doesn't see the problem here. Only the host does.
The Somali daycare scam is not the exception, it is the norm.
The reason the California high speed rail has spent 100 BILLION without producing any actual track isn't because they are bad at building track, it is because they are good at stealing money. If they have their way they will steal another 100 billion. The worst thing that could ever happen to this project is the track gets built, because then the money will stop. How many trust fund nepo-babies working at NGOs and non-profits are getting 100k a year working no-show jobs from this gravy train (ahem)?
"Manhattan is just a two-hour non-stop flight from my house, and unlike most conservatives, I LOVE vacationing there."
You might already be aware of this, but the last few times I visited the City I stayed across the Hudson in New Jersey.
As I explained to a friend, you get twice the hotel room for half the price, and you get a view of the New York skyline...which you mostly can't from NYC itself.
If you "choose wisely," you're within a few steps of the PATH train, one of the trans-Hudson ferries (!), or--worst case--a bus stop where you can catch a bus to the Port Authority.
Which is a lot easier and safer than riding the NYC transit system.
Also, Jersey City and other locations aren't nearly the cultural deserts they used to be: during my last stay, I could easily walk to multiple restos, many of which were as good or better than comparable NYC ones...and a LOT cheaper.
Our taxes fund the fiefdom over which the government rules. The average taxpayer is nothing but a cash cow politicians use to buy votes from the grifters, many of whom are here illegally, who live off the taxpayer, and those same politicians live large at the same taxpayer’s expense. I paid a big tax bill for 2025. I doubt that any of it will pay for the services you named.
I am going to sound like every black-pilled libertarian/conservative ever here but whatever.
The system is functioning -exactly- as intended. The intent is to steal as much money as possible and for the people involved to do so with as clean a conscience as possible. But if it can not be done with a clean conscience then it will be done with a dirty one.
The reason Social Security is deep in debt is because they want to be. That debt represents money that recipients got to spend that someone else has to pay for.
New York isn't broken, it is extraordinarily successful. It steals billions of dollars every year and the recipients love it. A swarm of parasites has descended on NYC. NYC didn't have the immune response necessary to fight them off. Now it's being sucked dry. The parasites see this as an absolute win. When NYC has nothing left to steal they will move on to the next one.
The system is working great for the people it is supposed to be working for. The parasite doesn't see the problem here. Only the host does.
The Somali daycare scam is not the exception, it is the norm.
The reason the California high speed rail has spent 100 BILLION without producing any actual track isn't because they are bad at building track, it is because they are good at stealing money. If they have their way they will steal another 100 billion. The worst thing that could ever happen to this project is the track gets built, because then the money will stop. How many trust fund nepo-babies working at NGOs and non-profits are getting 100k a year working no-show jobs from this gravy train (ahem)?
"Manhattan is just a two-hour non-stop flight from my house, and unlike most conservatives, I LOVE vacationing there."
You might already be aware of this, but the last few times I visited the City I stayed across the Hudson in New Jersey.
As I explained to a friend, you get twice the hotel room for half the price, and you get a view of the New York skyline...which you mostly can't from NYC itself.
If you "choose wisely," you're within a few steps of the PATH train, one of the trans-Hudson ferries (!), or--worst case--a bus stop where you can catch a bus to the Port Authority.
Which is a lot easier and safer than riding the NYC transit system.
Also, Jersey City and other locations aren't nearly the cultural deserts they used to be: during my last stay, I could easily walk to multiple restos, many of which were as good or better than comparable NYC ones...and a LOT cheaper.
¡ARRIBA, ARRIBA! You left me speechless with this one, amigo, and I seldom am!!!