The point is that if you are in the business of selling political ideas, credibility is a major selling point. Extreme exaggerations hurt your cause.

You might try dividing the NY budget by the population of NY to bring about the sense of outrage you sought in your original post.

For example, the federal budget of nearly $3 trillion works out to nearly $10,000 for each of the 300 million men, women and children of America.

That is a real eye opener to most people, even small government conservatives and minarchist libertarians. When you add in the per capita budgets of local and state government, you end up with a figure that approaches the national median income.

Now the budget seems rather reasonable, doesn’t it?

The federal government is spending just under $3 Trillion - a year.

I doubt seriously if NY is spending $1.1 Trillion in 3 days.

If the numbers above are accurate, NY is spending a little over
$120 Billion (with a “B”) per year.