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Tuesday, February 4 NYC blues
lately it seems like being a New Yorker As of Feb 1st, we now have to dial an area code even if we want to call our next door neighbor. I had to re-program all the numbers in my internet dial up and the Chinese food number thats permanently etched in my brain ( shut up) now requires an area code. Course we all know what's next. Yep it'll be a toll call to dial anyone more than 10 blocks away. Probably be considered another country if it's over any of the bridges. Hmmm then again.... After "911" youda thunk our new rich boy mayor would have done everything imaginable to make us love him. But in fact el richo has done much the opposite. He decides to save jobs by subjecting property owners to the largest tax hike in NYC history....18 and 1/2 %!!! Hello! What happened to 8% and then maybe 6% from somewhere else and another few dollars from somewhere else. I suppose this was a rob from the rich give to the poor idea, but guess what condos and co-ops got hit up the wazoo and most NYers I know have spent their last many years scrambling to stop throwing their rent money down the toilet and into a mortgage instead. So what's the reward? You finally bought your own little apartment just in time to watch your monthly bite go up like a 100 bucks or more... Then richie rich takes on smoking. His idea was to save the employees by banning smoking in bars. Hello! People who opt to work in bars kinda know the deal. Why not at least give the bars a smoking section. Course the millionare bar owners will be able to comply with the super expensive highly ventilated private room loophole. But mom and pop bars may lose just enough business to put them out of business. And speaking of the small business owner. I'm one. I'm the chef, sales person, manager and occasional pot washer. Now I have to go to jury duty. Used to be when you were a solo owner, this excused you. Not know. So in these economic times, I need to close my business down for a week. Yeah, ok maybe you're thinking that makes me sound un-patriotic, but you know what..it's my duty to stay in business and if I close a lot of part time So which is better? Yep I'll be sitting in that big room waiting for them to call me for day after day after day,the big room that won't let you turn your cell phone on and meanwhile client, after client after client will be going elsewhere. It's enough to make you wanna smoke...but you can't. It's enough to make you wanna drink..but you spent your play money on an 18 and 1/2% tax increase. It's enough to make you wanna just fart. That, evidentally, you're still allowed to do.
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