TAXES ARE EARLY RISING (Bloomberg signs largest tax increase in NYC history!)

New York Post ^ | DAVID SEIFMAN and KENNETH LOVETT

[Rome2000]

December 3, 2002 -- Mayor Bloomberg approved the largest tax increase in city history yesterday at City Hall, in a ceremony just after sunrise that barely lasted 10 minutes.

Not a single person showed up to testify. Neither did 37 of the 41 City Council members who voted for it.

[Rome2000]

Just another example of the old adage, vote for a RINO, and suffer the consequences.

This monstrous excuse for a Mayor has not cut a single NYC government job, but has no problem socking citizens with an 18% increase in their property taxes (and thats just for starters).

The apparatchik mentality at work, protect the beauracracy at all costs and the taxpayers be damned.

[Rome2000]

After signing the measure and in keeping with tradition, Bloomberg distributed the various ceremonial pens he used to sign his name.

Unmitigated gall.

[Mark]

Dear Mayor,

You might as well come on out to Californyaehh and screw up an entire state and then blame it on "Davis the Weasel".

[Sam Cree]

This'll probably make it even more difficult to afford housing in NYC, thus requiring even more taxes and even more rent control, so the folks who can't afford it can continue to be there.

[Sir Gawain]

{^} J {^}

[Rome2000]

It appears that what Osama started Bloomberg is determined to finish.

The final destruction of NYC as a viable center of trade in the United States.

No self respecting CEO would subject his people to that place unless it was absolutely necessary.

[DLfromthedesert]

If I lived in NYC I know just what I'd do with one of those ceremonial pens ... unceremoniously shove it up Bloomberg's ceremonious butt!!!

[Lurker]

Keep repeating: "Republicans are good, Democrats are bad."

Do so as often as necessary.....

L

[Mo1]

Highest Tax increase huh??

I guess Bloomberg didn't have plans on running again huh??

[Conservababe]

Goodness gracious, will we ever learn that dems turned Republican are RINOS, evermore

[Dog Gone]

I have defended a few RINOs on occasion, just because they were the best we could get under the circumstances.

But this guy sucks.

Bloomberg could be Ted Kennedy and we wouldn't notice the difference.

[areafiftyone]

Already posted HERE

[hosepipe]

It's not easy to take the democrat out of the party BUT it is damned near impossible to take the democrat out of the democrat. All you end up with is a RINO{Republican in NAME only}- Himself

[Libertina]

WHY did Rudy Guiliani back this guy?

[Sparta]

A RINO is just as bad, if not worse than a Dem. Vote Libertarian when faced with a choice of the two.

[Incorrigible]

WHY did Rudy Guiliani back this guy?

The alternative, Mark Green, would have been worse if that can be imagined!

[Cold Heat]

Where's the cuts!

I would not insult a RINO by calling this Mayor by that name. This is not a economic plan! This is capitulation to the unions and who knows what else.

[Oschisms]

But I voted for Mark Green...knowing the city was gonna go to hell anyway, so they may as well be blaming the Dems. :)

[habs4ever]

He is a liberal Democrat who became a Republican so to avoid a primary contest.He said he wouldn't raise taxes and broke his pledge and it was his apparent understanding of the relationship between taxes and economic growth that made him more palatable than Mark Green.Not any longer.This act of his is folly.

[Blazing Saddles]

Sunquist of Tennessee tried harder than previous demo governor to get an income tax passed! Hard to tell what a politician is going to do anymore with so many special interest groups throwing money under the table, bribes etc.