Cuomo begs wealthy New Yorkers to come back to save the city and pleads 'I'll buy you

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Cuomo begs wealthy New Yorkers to come back to save the city and pleads 'I'll buy you a drink!' as he fights off calls to raise their taxes - which he fears may scare them away forever

    Cuomo said on Tuesday that he speaks to the city's wealthiest residents 'every day', begging them to come back
    Many fled for the Hamptons, upstate New York or Connecticut when the pandemic hit
    By May, at least 420,000 of the city's wealthiest residents had fled the city 
    Their exodus was cemented when riots and looting tore through the city in June
    Now, there are calls for higher taxes on the super wealthy to offset the projected $30billion deficit New York is facing over the next two years
    Cuomo is resisting it, saying it will only drive the billionaires out of the city for good
    He is furious that there remains no national plan to tackle COVID-19, and says the ongoing catastrophe in other states is holding New York back 
    Crime is up in New York City with a shocking 286% in robberies on the Upper East Side alone, shootings have gone up and arrests have halved
    The NYPD lost $1billion from its budget in the wake of the BLM movement 

By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com

Published: 08:57 EDT, 5 August 2020 | Updated: 17:07 EDT, 5 August 2020

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[DB]

Incompetence has consequences.

[jmyrlefuller]

Is he covering the mandatory meal to go along with that drink? It'll have to be more than chicken wings, you know...

[DB]

"BLM movement" probably shouldn't be phrased that way...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

So predictable.

Now there will be more begging for federal money, meaning Cuomo is coming after yours and mine.

[Gefn]

With crime up , of course people are fleeing. I don’t blame them. I’d rather live in the country or the mountains.

[PeteS in CA]

"Come be plundered and I'll buy you a beer!"

[Smokin Joe]

But...but...I want a Big Gulp!

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...?

[Jazzhead]

What an idiot.   Folks will come back when the status quo ante returns.  It's not that difficult.   Allow commerce to thrive and keep a lid on crime.  Giuliani and Bloomberg did it for years.

NYC is led by a Marxist martinet and the state is governed by an arrogant to-the-manor-born pol whose policies in the immediate wake of the COVID crisis were uniquely disastrous.

Nothing is inevitable.  We choose those will lead us.  Giuliani then, DeBlasio now.   A peaceful, vibrant NYC was just a short time ago.   The difference is leadership. Now Cuomo is reduced to begging the productive folks his policies abuse to stay.  Pathetic.  As for DiBlasio, may he choke on his own vomit.