A Stitch in Haste

You re-elect him, you pay for it:

Forty-eight hours. That's how long it took for Mayor Mike to double-cross New York and call for new taxes -- violating repeated promises that he would do no such thing.
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On Friday, he renewed his demand to restore the commuter tax, which would zap non-city residents who work here and, indirectly, their employers.

Over and over again during the election campaign, Bloomy vowed not to raise taxes.

Here is what I wrote before the election:

Since the two leading candidates for Mayor of New York are both lifelong liberal Democrats who have no inspiring vision of the city and no agenda except to raise taxes, raise spending, raise entitlements, raise municipal employment, pander to every union within earshot and huff-and-puff about the public school system while doing nothing substantial about it, there's really no basis for preferring one over the other.

Acta est fabula, plaudite!