{"id":3066,"date":"2008-01-17T06:23:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/and_here_you_doubted_captain_hizzoners_good-government_superpowers.html"},"modified":"2008-01-17T06:23:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:23:34","slug":"and_here_you_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/and_here_you_do.html","title":{"rendered":"And Here You Doubted Captain Hizzoner&#8217;s Good-Government Superpowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/a_transfatfree.html\">Your cynicism and disrespect<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/69655\">foiled again by the mayor&#8217;s superior public relations prowess<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Defying expectations that the city would increase property taxes to help close a projected $3.1 billion budget gap, Mayor Bloomberg will argue today that the budget can be balanced without the pain of a tax hike.<\/p>\n<p>In his annual State of the City address, Mr. Bloomberg will propose extending the 7% property tax cut he instituted last year, initially presented as a one-time bonus, an aide familiar with the speech said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bloomberg also will call for an extension of a $400 property tax rebate for homeowners, the aide said.<\/p>\n<p>Backing away from a property tax increase as the city heads into an uncertain fiscal period may be seen as a sign Mr. Bloomberg is attempting to differentiate himself from the Democratic presidential candidates in advance of a possible White House run, and to avoid being characterized as a politician who would rather raise taxes than find savings in the city&#8217;s budget.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Dagnamit! He got us again! How could this finely honed BS detector miss this?!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your cynicism and disrespect is foiled again by the mayor&#8217;s superior public relations prowess: Defying expectations that the city would increase property taxes to help close a projected $3.1 billion budget gap, Mayor Bloomberg will argue today that the budget can be balanced without the pain of a tax hike. In his annual State of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}