Non-compliance amounts to a tax of about $2,000 on every taxpayer. |
The breakdown of people who are hit by the tax is like a demographic profile of the population in the New York area. |
The tax system is broken, and any kind of reform will involve winners and losers. |
There is a big opportunity for double-dipping. |
They [officials] have put the cost of the storm at $26 billion, but that could balloon. Nobody knows. If we are at a tipping point, obviously the impact could be worse. |
We're setting things up for both conservatives' and liberals' worst nightmare. We're going to have a government that can't provide even essential services, and we're going to have tax rates that make our historical tax rates look like some golden era by comparison. |