Healthcare Bill to Massively Affect New York

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"The top rate in New York City, home to many of the state's wealthiest people, would be 58.68 percent"

"The legislation is especially onerous for business owners, in part because it penalizes employers with a payroll bigger than $400,000 some 8 percent of wages if they don't offer health care"

"Asked if Obama supports the surtax on wealthiest Americans even though it would break a campaign pledge, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said only, 'It's a process that we're watching.'"

This is theft pure and simple. To each according to his needs, from each accord to his means.

700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing

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Your tax dollars hard at work!

"Once their hearings are over, they are either sent back to the classroom or fired. But because their cases are heard by 23 arbitrators who work only five days a month, stints of two or three years in a rubber room are common, and some teachers have been there for five or six."

""The day just seemed to crawl by until I started painting," Cohen said, adding that others read, play dominoes or sleep."

"There was a bar across the street," Saunders said. "Teachers would sneak out and hang out there for hours."