Been watching a MacBook repairman for a while, and found this gem. Essentially the city will become empty because:
Everything that people would stay in NYC to do and be worth the taxes is closed due to quarantine,
Taxes are terrible
Foreign wealthy people (probably mainly CCP) own hundreds, if not thousands of buildings that they don’t care to rent because it’s just there for tax writeoffs.
Just food for thought. Ideally, my solution to this would be a vacancy tax for commercially coded buildings, but I’d love to know if anyone had a better idea than that. Oh, also for Congress to pass a law stating foreigners aren’t allowed to own more than a certain amount of property in the whole country, if they can own any property at all.
New York City real-estate has other problems. Check out this article. People are leaving New York so fast that they're buying houses that they've never even seen. They're discovering that they like life outside of New York and they're not coming back.
But they will then take NYC to their new homes, and shit them up.
Democracy was a mistake.
That's a bit harsh. Democracy is fine buy the franchise should never have been extended past land or business owning males
The longer I live, the more "Service guarantees citizenship," makes sense.