Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
speaker
1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As I watched the tapes, I felt like Sifuni was pointing out the obvious.
Being part of New York City was financially a great deal for a small island.
Goldfarb was saying the future is unknown and probably worse.
Singletary was arguing that the present was known and bad, and the future might be a lot better.
Singletary was joined by Vote Yes, Inc.
's champion debater, Robert Scamardella.
You met him last episode, too.
He's the attorney who grew up on Staten Island and remembers it pre-Bridge as an entirely different and better place.
At the debate, he sat back in his chair, arms folded, looking a little grumpy.
Like the Great American Revolution, this secession debate was really all about taxes.
VoteYes was saying, we'll figure it out, and who needs all those services anyways?
Goldfarb was saying, you need more than you think, and it's going to cost you.
This spilled out way beyond the debate stage.
It was in the paper all the time.
It was the hot topic of conversation all over the island.
When I sat down with Scamardella, he remembered this one time he and his wife went to a wedding at the Staten, the island's grand catering hall.
An interesting fact I learned about city secession movements at large is most of the time it's about taxes.
A rich area thinks, why should we pay for all those services the poor people are getting?
If we just hoarded our resources, we could have it so much better here.
What's weird about Staten Island secession is that multiple studies by New York City and the secessionists agreed that Staten Island got more in tax revenue than it paid.
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