I’d love to know what the economic ROI is on paying people that much to clear snow. I bet it’s huge in NYC.

Plus all the money paid out in wages went back into the local economy for rent, food, etc. It didn't go to offshore tax havens.

Conservative don't want to make things better for everyone, they want to make things better for themselves.

This makes them short sighted and only see the money right in front of their face, which in this case, is going into the pockets of people shovelling snow.

They don't see the benefit because it doesn't benefit them immediately.

But you can bet your life that they will reap the benefit as they pull themselves up by other peoples bootstraps.

The issue with public transport is that it's an investment that will pay off in years, not next quarter, or even next election. They don't give a fuck if it doesn't benefit them specifically, and right now.

Also, it evens the field. They don't want this because the bottom having more means they are less above them.

Because everything's a get rich quick scheme or a scam, investments to them are rigging bets on polymarket

Let’s not forget also, that when you pay people directly they go and spend that money. Businesses cannot have customers if the customers don’t have money. The reason why money is kept so tight is a) blind greed and b) because then people can only afford to patronize Walmart or Amazon, not their local stores.

Conservatives like to act as though raising minimum wage will kill local businesses despite the fact that that is not how that works.

Clean energy is another example of an investment which obviously saves money in the long term and also improves the economy in the short term. Conservatives don't care about that because they don't care about the long term, and even if they do, they want all of these issues to still be around so they have something to yell about (since apparently voters only care about something being a problem and can't tell if the 'solution' will actually make things better or worse). There's also a lot of lobbyist money that they can keep on getting by preventing these sorts of investments. If we stopped relying on a couple of oil companies, then those oil companies wouldn't be able to give the politicians money.

Besides that, people are struggling to make ends meet. If the city pays them to do something, that money isn't just staying in saving accounts. They are going to spend it, likely very very soon.

And it's not a new concept either, it has been proven many times and there's plenty of case studies. High speed rail too, all over Europe, China and Japan. But when your job has been given to you by an oil company donation...

Tell that to conservatives that say to cut taxes and social services.

No! Money is only supposed to be hoarded, so you can watch red line go up.

I thought you were supposed to give it to billionaires for safekeeping?

Homer is smarter than all conservatives combined

They aren't even used to bomb brown people overseas 😡

Maybe.

Taxes rarely get any good propaganda, though. I don't mind news stories like this being plastered everwhere if it means people will start believing their government can do something for them again.

If they just built some more datacentres the snow would naturally melt form the climate change.

A lot of seasonal workers are exempt from earning overtime.

And $30/hr doesn't even seem all that high for a high-cost-of-living area like NY.

Probably both, yeah. They're not exactly known for being objectively right about things..

How will he ever make a profit?!