[proxy_user]

Rudy cut tax rates, and the money poured in.

He spent a lot of it to hire more policemen, and arrest all the criminals that the libs had ignored for years.

[Reagan Man]

The income tax cuts of $2.0 billion from 1996-2001 offset the $1.8 billion in income tax increases under Mayor Dinkins. A modest $200 million tax savings. Tax money did pour into city coffers and the city govt grew larger and larger. But Rudy added only about 1500 new uniformed police officers. Rudy did manage to add 15,000 new teachers to the city employment rolls, enlarging the membership of two of the nations MOST liberal organizations, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

Rudy did a good job reducing crime rates. Crime rates also came down under Dinkins and Mayor Bloomberg too. Not a good enough reason for conservatives to vote for any of those three liberals to be POTUS.