Rebel Against NYS..Republic of Buffalo

[BuffaloRepublic]

Time to dump NYS.......time to stop paying taxes we dont benefit from......who will sign up to rebel against NYS.....

[KMT]

;) I think we need a thoughtful, methodical approach to gather information on the subject first!

[Unregistered]

Yes!

we don't want to look like a bunch of fruit cakes :)

[Unregistered]

I alreaday did in my own small way, I moved to a great area 10 years ago, WNY can no longer suck money from my pockets to waste and offer a region with no career economic opportunities.

Anyone care to hazzard a guess how long it will be before Buffalo has to tax every remaining business and individual at 100%, still not be able to pay the budgets and then insit people take second jobs so they can pay more in taxes? Or will the remaining "producers" leave before that point?

How bad must it get before the area starts loosing like 5-10% of the population every year and it collapses or will people/cpmpanies stay untill taxation reaches say....80%

Why stay in an area that offers so little and costs so much?

It's like being offered a Yugo for $60,000 and a new Lexus for $5000....anyone paying the high buck for the disposable car really needs to be "checked"

[BuffaloRepublic]

Isnt time for some community activism maybe evan disruption to attempt to force all those involved in western ny politics and businesses who have destroyed western ny out of office.

Conventional actions dont seem to work. Isnt a more agressive approach worth a try

[Unregistered]

Naw, we'd have to pay to clean up any mess we make. Anyhow they would say we were terriost or something to cover thier butts.

[TDoran]

Originally posted by BuffaloRepublic
Isnt time for some community activism maybe evan disruption to attempt to force all those involved in western ny politics and businesses who have destroyed western ny out of office.

Conventional actions dont seem to work. Isnt a more agressive approach worth a try

Unfortunately it may come to something like that, but considering that people have been sitting on their duffs as this area has declined for 40 years, I don't hold out much hope.

[Unregistered]

disruption? what, like armed struggle? that's just stupid...

The great thing about America is the political process eventually rectifies itself in the face of prolonged inequity. It's not the elected leaders who are to blame; they are just reflections of ourselves. We pulled the "big government, pro-union, programs for all" voting lever until we bankrupted ourselves. It's that simple.
There's a collective wake-up call going on right now as the public realizes that there is no money tree. This forum is part of that process. Soon there wll be a change in local government brought on by the voters, not by a bunch of brown shirts with clubs and guns. So stuff your revolutionay manifesto and join the process like all the other citizens.

[Unregistered]

Yep he has a point. IF anyone ever thought a disruptive solution we'd all be sitting in jail or getting shot at by the army.

Even though the cause is for the betterment of the area they wouldn't look at it that way. We'd have to be able to get 100,000 people in erie county all at once and just empty out city hall in one foul swoop. Would be funny one giant pink slip that says your services are no longer required.

Won't happen though seeing most are not motivated and would rather sit on thier asses at home and watch it on the news. :)

The mentality of these people we have elected through new york state isn't what we thought it was, now was it? Listen to them all talk about the control board. If they were doing thier job respectively and in good fashion we would not have a board on the way.

WOuld be nice if every politician with more than 10 years in would just leave the state voluntarily.