Michael Bloomberg v the People of New York City
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FUNY Issue Three
By Juan Gonzalez, Daily News/Democracy Now!
Michael Bloomberg, more than any New York mayor in memory, is systematically consolidating a velvet-glove takeover of city government on behalf of Wall Street’s financiers and the city’s real estate barons…
Many of those tax breaks [for developers and corporations] are guaranteed for 20 or 30 years… By siphoning off those tax streams for decades to come, Bloomberg, like Giuliani on a smaller scale before him, is effectively dismantling the tax base that future mayors and city councils will need to pay for basic city services.
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