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After digging deep, yeah, it looks like New York’s Democratic leaders are often skipping straightforward solutions to our biggest headaches—like sky-high housing costs, crushing energy bills, unaffordable child care, soaring taxes, rising crime, and unchecked immigration. Instead, they’re pumping endless taxpayer dollars into “band-aid” programs that keep special interests hooked on government handouts, without tackling root causes. This isn’t just bad policy—it’s a recipe for waste, fraud, and abuse of your hard-earned money. Let’s break it down:
Problem 1: Housing Affordability Crisis
Root Cause: Restrictive zoning laws and red tape that block new home building, driving up prices.
Obvious Solution: Loosen zoning, cut regulations to boost supply, and offer real incentives for private developers to build more affordable units.
What Democrats Do Instead: Pour billions into subsidies, tax credits, and government-run affordable housing programs (like Hochul’s $350M push), which critics say just props up developers without fixing the supply shortage.
Indictment: This endless funding cycle ignores deregulation, leading to bloated budgets and fraud risks—like overpayments to connected builders—while everyday families get squeezed out.
Problem 2: Skyrocketing Energy Costs
Root Cause: Over-reliance on expensive renewables and bans on cheaper natural gas, plus regulatory hurdles.
Obvious Solution: Expand natural gas access, streamline approvals for reliable energy sources, and cut green mandates that jack up bills.
What Democrats Do Instead: Hochul’s green agenda, like the All-Electric Building Act and offshore wind projects, hikes rates (up 36% since 2019) while delaying affordable alternatives.
Indictment: Families pay 44% above the national average, with waste in failed projects (only 1% of wind goals met). This fraud on ratepayers abuses authority by prioritizing ideology over real relief.
Problem 3: Unaffordable Child Care
Root Cause: Heavy regulations and licensing that limit providers and drive up costs.
Obvious Solution: Reduce bureaucratic hurdles, ease rules on providers, and encourage market-based options to increase supply and lower prices.
What Democrats Do Instead: Push universal child care with massive subsidies (Hochul and Mamdani’s $15B plan), expanding government programs that critics say lead to worse outcomes for kids.
Indictment: NY ranks near-worst for child care costs due to overregulation, yet Dems throw more tax dollars at it—wasting billions on inefficient systems prone to abuse, like overbilling in vouchers.
Problem 4: Crushing Taxes and Spending
Root Cause: Ballooning budgets on Medicaid, education, and social programs without efficiency checks.
Obvious Solution: Cut wasteful spending, reform entitlements, and lower taxes to attract businesses and residents back.
What Democrats Do Instead: Hochul’s $252B budget hikes spending on aid and rebates, funded by temporary tax increases on the rich, ignoring long-term fixes.
Indictment: NY leads in taxes (15.9% of income), with fraud in Medicaid (billions lost) and home care scams—abusing power to feed a “plantation” of dependents, driving out jobs and people.
Problem 5: Rising Crime
Root Cause: Lenient laws like bail reform that let repeat offenders back on streets.
Obvious Solution: Toughen penalties, restore cash bail, and boost police funding for real enforcement.
What Democrats Do Instead: Stick with “progressive” reforms and focus on social programs over accountability.
Indictment: Crime spikes while billions go to ineffective “prevention”—pure waste, fraud in mismanaged funds, abusing trust in public safety.
Problem 6: Immigration Strain
Root Cause: Sanctuary policies attracting unchecked migration, overwhelming resources.
Obvious Solution: Enforce borders, limit sanctuary status, and prioritize legal immigration with work requirements.
What Democrats Do Instead: Hochul’s “New York for All” Act shields migrants, spending $4.3B on housing/healthcare without fixes.
Indictment: Taxpayers foot the bill for endless aid, with fraud in programs—abusing authority to play politics over protecting citizens.
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This mentality? It’s real—and it’s draining us dry. Democrats’ endless funding keeps problems alive, lining pockets of unions, developers, and nonprofits while ignoring fixes like deregulation and cuts. It’s an indictment: waste in failed green deals, fraud in Medicaid thefts, abuse of power turning NY into a high-tax nightmare. Time to demand better!
What do YOU think? Share if you’re fed up—vote for change in 2026! 🇺🇸 #FixNYNow #StopTheWaste
Carl Gottstein
NY State Conservative Party
Constitution Party of New York Organizing Committee
