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"The city budget increased 18%"

That comes out to 3% over the 6 year period you talked about. That is approximately the average inflation rate for that period. In essence the budget never grew in real dollar terms over those 6 years. Some big spender!

That is actually pretty amazing figuring the city council is dominated by politico ranging from run of the mill liberals to outright communists. I know of a lot of cities and states (not to mention the feds)that are dominated by Republicans and spending is out of control.

He would have never had the votes to abolish the income tax. Remember politics is the art of the possible and as it is he did what most thought was the impossible.

He also slashed taxes in other areas and reformed NYC welfare system in which when he came in almost 20% of the city was on.

Remember he was the mayor of NYC with a hostile city council. All in all on the fiscal side he did amazing.

Now on Immigration,gun control, and abortion I do not agree with him and I hope he has modified or even disavowed those positions. I am waiting to see where he stands when he officially announces.

>>>>That comes out to 3% over the 6 year period you talked about. That is approximately the average inflation rate for that period. In essence the budget never grew in real dollar terms over those 6 years. Some big spender!

Nice try. If Rudy didn't support big government, he would have made an EFFORT to slash the budget. That didn't happen. He also made no EFFORT to end the city income tax. Add that $4.5 billion deficit to the overall bill handed the NYCity taxpayers and the overall budget increase went up some 33% in six years. And you completely forgot about the $42 billion debt level Rudy left behind. Imagine Rudy with his hands on the federal budget of almost $3 trillion. LOL

Rudy did reduce crime in NYCity, in an era when national crime rates were falling. From what I've read crime began dropping under the Dikens admin. Rudy did reduce welfare rolls, but he didn't abolish welfare. NYCity remains a welfare haven. By abolishing the 12.5% surtax on city income tax rates, Rudy did stimulate business growth within the city limits. If he hadn't succeded at lowering costs for businesses to relocate to NYCity, he wouldn't have been reelected. The Democrat controlled City Council understood that too, and they supported improving the business climate.

You think Rudy is the savior of the GOP. From my conservative perspective, no matter how you slice it, Rudy is a liberal.