>Those who are here illegally

The article explicitly states that only certain legal residents will be allowed to vote.

Also, green card holders and immigrants with other statuses in NYC have significantly less income than both naturalized and U.S. born citizens(see figure 8 in [0]).

I’m currently living in a jurisdiction that allows most immigrants to vote. All resident EU citizens can vote in local elections in the UK, and all resident Commonwealth citizens can vote in all elections. I don’t think members of these groups vote overwhelmingly for free stuff or for tax breaks.

[0]. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/opportunity/pdf/immigrant-povert...

If they live and vote in your city, shouldn’t they have a voice in the place they live?

> Those who are here illegally and will vote for more free stuff and those who are incredibly wealthy and will vote for more tax breaks for themselves and their properties.

The wealthy are already doing a fine job on tax evasion, I’m deeply skeptical that there are a game-changing number of wealthy non-citizens in that group. As for the “free stuff” argument – even liberal U.S. cities rarely give things away without many strings and historically this has always been a net economic win because people who aren’t in poverty participate more in the economy. I’d be shocked if it cost the city even half of what, say, the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually due to lawless behavior by the NYPD.

> Here are people who are not citizens of your country and they get a vote in how things are run.

gasp - people living in and contributing to a country getting to voice their democratic opinions on how things are run? what an absolutely terrible idea! they will just vote for more free stuff, everyone knows this! the party that doesn't get their vote told me so.

Everyone can vote in local elections in Ireland, no matter their citizenship. In fact everyone can run for local election too... If you live in a place you should have some say on how it is run, how your taxes are spent. It causes no problems. National and constitutional votes are a different story... I am much less in favour of letting citizens who live abroad vote... at the end of the day, they have no skin in the game.

The definition is citizenship is arbitrary. It seems reasonable to have different regions apply different definitions that work for them.

Your opinion seems to be that people always votes selfishly? That everything is zero sum? If that’s the case then why did the people with power in NYC choose to give up power to those without a voice? Democracy is a force for good when done right.