Tax Hike Snafu
New York City bureaucracy at its finest. Due to some bizarre legislative "aging" law, New York City residents will be seeing two sales tax hikes. The .25 point state sales tax hike will take effect on Sunday, but the .125 point city sales tax hike will take effect later. The City Council approved the city sales tax hike yesterday, but apparently there is some law that states a bill must "age" for 5 working days before the Mayor can sign it, meaning Mikey can't sign it until next Wednesday. There is finger-pointing galore, with Mikey blaming the City Council for putting off approval, and the City Council blaming Mikey for not getting them the bill earlier. Although consumers won't mind waiting the extra week, merchants will now have to reprogram their POS machines twice.
I was thinking last night that one good thing might come out of Mikey "32% approval rating" Bloomberg's one term as mayor. Some of these ridiculous bureaucratic laws are coming to light, and maybe after he's out of office, they'll be repealed.
Comments
If Bloomberg is a one-term mayor, who would replace him?
Posted by: Laurence Simon | May 29, 2003 01:12 PM
Believe it or not, Giuliani could run for Mayor again. The New York City term limits only preclude one from serving two consecutive terms.
Other than that, there is Alan Hevesi (who should have gotten the Democratic nomination over the annoying and unelectable Mark Green).
Posted by: Lesley | May 29, 2003 01:34 PM