Guess who was termed out in 2001?
Guess who was termed out in 2001?
Sorry, overall, Giuliani is too far left [not a fiscal conservative either]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821920/posts
NewsDay
4/23/2007
Points brought out in the article:
- Giuliani was big on doling out corporate welfare.
- He loved offering huge taxpayer subsidies to sports teams for new stadiums.
- Total expenditures rose by 30 percent during Giuliani’s term in office, or almost double the inflation rate.
- He deserves credit for cutting some taxes, including the city’s hotel and commercial rent taxes.
- But he also worked hard for high taxes.
- In 1994, Giuliani endorsed Gov. Mario Cuomo, a Democrat, for re-election against then-challenger George Pataki, the Republican. Why? In part, it was because Giuliani opposed Pataki’s proposed tax cuts.
- In 1999 Giuliani fought against the State Legislature’s repeal of a commuter income tax.
- Giuliani’s rather smallish tax cuts were swamped by his tax increases.
- New York City’s personal, corporate and unincorporated business income taxes, on top of state income levies, have long hampered entrepreneurship and economic growth, chasing away individuals and businesses.
- Giuliani’s budgets called for continuing a temporary personal income tax surcharges when they were to expire.
- In 1998, Giuliani reneged on his promise to eliminate the commercial rent tax and opposed the Democrat-led city council’s effort to allow one of the income tax surcharges to expire as scheduled. He wanted to use the commercial rent tax revenue to build new stadiums for the Mets and Yankees, and was holding the income tax surcharge hostage to get the city council’s support. That surcharge expired, despite Giuliani’s opposition.
- So much for Rudy the tax cutter.
Conclusion:
As for Giuliani supposedly being the only Republican able to beat Clinton, the contrary case can easily be made. With a liberal Giuliani leading the GOP ticket, conservative turnout could be quite low, making it easier for Clinton to win the White House.
So, given this political reality and Giuliani’s lefty record on many social and economic issues, one again wonders why any conservative would support him for president.