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>>Clinton reigned at that time and as you might predict, the GOP chicken-littled that the tax increases would bring the skies atumbling down, just as contemporary Democrats predicted that tax cuts would only benefit the rich. They were both wrong,
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>>It's not a matter of afford, of course NY can afford the cost of as little as $19B or as much as $40B over time, depending who you ask. But you're paying for decades of voters rewarding political cowards who delivered stirring speeches but deferred spending to get re-elected.
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>The spending was deferred because these was no money to pay for it.
>Trump can sell a condo in NYC for more than $20 million, but the subways don't work.
>The answer seems pretty obvious to me.

The answer is obvious to me - It's who in in charge of getting the subway fixed and who is in charge of the condo i.e. Wollman Skating Rink