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Well reasoned article Quote: These results don?t necessarily mean minimum wage increases are bad policy. They do, however, support the notion that higher minimum wages have a cost, namely fewer employment opportunities for lower-skill workers. It?s important that we recognize this cost in any discussion about minimum wage policy. I agree.
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Exactly right! It's not a justification to not raise the minimum wage but it is a legitimate unintended consequence.
Posted on: 2019/2/7 15:02
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Businesses suffering the most will be McDonalds franchieses and other shitty employers. It's not going to chase anyone out, but it may lead to price increases for consumers that consume shitty, cheap products. Tax collection on people making minimum wage isnt going to make a dent in the budget.
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It's a frivolous lawsuit. A waste of money x2. VNA is gonna hire attorneys along with the city using tax dollars collected from VNA members. Fulop is giving out abatements any more. We should be thankful for the ratables. But no. This is why we can't have nice things.
Posted on: 2019/2/6 23:02
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Bidding was open to everyone and their mother. I agree the property is probably worth more, but other developers have got to do their due diligence and submit bids. I saw this RFP on JCRA's website for over a couple months. Not like it was a secret.
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That section of 5th street isn't exactly Jersey City's proudest block (from a design/aesthetics point of view). That new mega house doesn't help though.
Posted on: 2019/2/6 4:53
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Re: Sweeney proposes slapping payroll tax on Jersey City businesses to fund schools
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It's a cycle of poverty. Lousy children become lousy parents and raise lousy children. The only thing to break the cycle is good education and economic opportunities. I'm all for gentrification if it helps break the cycle. Unfortunately this leads to the displacement of a lot of people, but just having a concentrating poverty in a particular neighborhood or building will never bring about positive change. Bring in more charters in areas of failing schools and starve out the old ineffective and racist ways.
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Keep in mind that this illegal tax does nothing to improve student education. It merely sustains that status quo. Sometimes the only way to fix the system is to break it. I'm not even close to Republican but these tax and spend policies are a shame. Last in the state in extra circular activities and music, bottom of the barrel for performance. Top 10 in per capita spending. Something is wrong with this situation. Give the $25,000 per capita to a charter.
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This tax is illegal, and JC schools are so poorly run that I wish we could import the school trustees from Lakeland so they would defund the school board.
The ones suffering in all this is the students and the shitty education they receive.
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You're probably right but all that's needed is a politically connected property owner and POOF there it appears.
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It's the politics. For example, the Mayor should have never fought the prior reval company. They should have just paid for work preformed and call it a day. Instead, thousands had to be spent on legal fees using a tactic that would make Trump blush. I wish the courts would have award tens of millions in punitive damages against the city so we would learn not to weaponize the legal system and be fair. There is also the robinhood property where the developer is alleging the city is dragging their feet after being order by a prior court case to grant approval. The city never learns.
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Yup. It's cursed. I can even predict the future by looking at the past: There will be another owner proposing a new twin tower development in 5 years, even taller than the last iteration It will gain planning board approval and a tax abatement. Site will be cleared, maybe even excavated. Then something will happen (economic crash) and it will remain vacant for another generation. Mark my words it will occur, unfortunately.
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Another week and another legal defeat for Jersey City. Next Mayoral election, I'm voting for the candidate that won't continue pissing away valuable tax dollars on legal fees fighting lost causes.
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I guess that number will be going down as the top 1 percenters come to their senses and move to a tax friendly state. Haha!! What was the number before that billionaire hedge fund guy moved to Florida.
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Funny!
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Cities have no problem issuing a citation to a homeowner if the snow isnt cleared in the allotted time. Maybe NJ should use its hammer and impose a fine in each instance a bus stop isn't cleared when the city is responsible.
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This sounds reasonable to me. But let's take it a step further. Bring in the heavy hand of the state to order municiaplities to maintain NJ Transit stops. Right now if NJ transit called a municipality about the bus stops, I'm not sure if they will respond in a reasonable amount of time. Also, why should NJ transit be calling hundreds of municipalities about the bus stops. Local citizens should do their part instead of relying on a transit agency to make the calls. I dont disagree with anything you said though.
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They're right though. This is a city issue and they are skirting on their responsibility.
Posted on: 2019/1/20 0:35
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T-Bird, I agree with you but this is unrealistic when considering the harsh and cold winters. PATH needs another tunnel. Period. I heard a crazy idea of converting two lanes in the Lincoln Tunnel for a new PATH line to midtown. The car nuts would never let it happen of course, but it would be one way to increase transit capacity without spending the $10 billion for a tunnel.
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Reminds me of a bar in college... Cover was $20 for men. But for women it was AYCD (All You Can Drink) for free. It's where you went if you wanted to get laid that night.
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It's not so much the rules but selective enforcement to keep blacks out. A simple business casual required (collar shirt, dress shoes required) would have done the trick if they were serious about the dress code.
Why anyone would patronage that spot now is beyond me. The dress code they posted is some pretentious shit, racist or not. Per Yelp, the food probably isn't even that good.
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It's still very much an active plan. (I would not want to build in Hoboken because they're all sorts of hoops they make developers jump through then they change their hearts last minute to deny or slow approval. Although NJ Transit is immune from local zoning, they've been playing nice with Hoboken, trying to come to an amendable agreement for political reasons. Personally, I wish the legislature would pass a law ordering NJ Transit to tell Hoboken to flick off and develop the lands to the highest and best use so the revenue can go towards improving NJ Transit. The land is too valuable to the economic health of New Jersey to be pussyfooting with a fiefdom.) Sept. 2018 updates: https://www.politico.com/states/new-je ... oboken-development-622562 https://betterwaterfront.org/?p=5023 Websites: http://www.hobokenterminalandrailyard.com/ http://www.hobokennj.org/docs/communi ... ent-Plan-October-2014.pdf
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The answer is not everyone heads to Manhattan. There are a lot of folks that get on in Journal Square going to Newark.
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Thanks Terrence!
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One last thought - did the city give advance warning to the developer that they were failing to meet the conditions of the tax abatement? Was the developer given an opportunity for due process or an opportunity to correct deficiencies with the tax abatement while the building was under construction.
Bad process can kill a legal case. Just saying...
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I feel claustrophobic just looking at that photo.
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Every news article I've read in the past two years about legal action against the city were about the city losing the lawsuit, especially when it comes to property and development issues. We have the reval x 2 (the contractor hired to do the old one and against the state), the robinhood property, One Journal Square's record request, 16 Perrine "arbitrary and capricious" denial, etc... I don't fault legal consul as they are obligated to inform when there is a weak or strong case. I fault the pols for playing politics with taxpayer's money. I'm far from an attorney, but trying to define what constitutes "a good faith attempt" to hire locally and to legally prove that the developer failed to do so seems like an uphill battle for the city. Let's be honest - a good faith attempt is wishy washy language. Put in a hard requirement: "a minimum of 40% of the construction workers must be residents of Jersey City." That would be much easier to define and to verify compliance or noncompliance. Bookmark this thread. bodhipooh is right. This will be another lawsuit where the city is overruled on appeal and the developer is entitled for repayment of taxes plus interest and punitive damages. Also, is the city monitoring all developer agreements that contain the good faith attempt language to hire locally... because if it's selective enforcement or they are holding this developer to a higher standard than other developers... The one owns who really make money in this state are the lawyers.
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This makes sense for condo units, but I wasn't aware that rental properties could have some units abated and others not. A 500-unit rental building would show up as a single-parcel on the tax roll. A 500-unit condo would show up as 501 parcels (the units plus the condo association common area).
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