Giuliani has said that he cut taxes 23 times as mayor of New York City. However,  the city's Independent Budget Office has pointed out that seven of these tax cuts  were state initiatives, and that Giuliani had actually opposed the largest cut which  was due to come with the expiration of a 12½-percent surcharge on the city's ...
Q: You like to say that you cut taxes 23 times as mayor of NYC, but in fact a  number of those tax cuts were enacted over your opposition. There was a case in  1998 where you fought a city council for 5 months when they want today reduce a  tax surcharge. And even before 9/11, you had left New York City with almost a $3  ...
(Joelle Attinger, "The Decline of New York," Time, 9/17/90; The New York Times/ CBS News Poll, Conducted 10/6/01-10/9/01, Results Available At: www.nytimes. com, Accessed 4/20/07). RUDY CUT TAXES. As Mayor, Giuliani Reduced Or  Eliminated 23 Taxes, Including Sales, Income And Business Taxes, Saving ...
Sep 22, 2010 ... It is not an easy time to be a mayor. At city halls, deficits are not viewed as some  far-off problem, as they often are at the federal level, but as gaping holes that  must be filled at once by raising taxes or cutting services. And because city  services have a clear impact on people's day-to-day lives — think police ...
Apr 24, 2017 ... Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday that New York City would offer free,  full-day preschool to all 3-year-olds within four years, saying that he was building  on the success of the city's prekindergarten program for 4-year-olds and that it  was time to go further. New York would be one of few cities in the ...
I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City.