"Those earning between $500,000 and one million dollars a year, for instance, would see their taxes increase by an average of $973 a year. That's less than three bucks a day -- about the cost of a small soy latte at your local Starbucks."
So there you have it. Your answer. From the mouth of Mayor Bill DeBlasio. A Social Contract and pact with the people who elected him to office. No, with working people, the working poor and the dwindling middle class. I'm no betting man but my money's on him because for all his charm and charisma in the end New York City will come to know the Bill DeBlasio that I know. The one that is tough, politically shrewd, disarmingly ruthless and who likes to shoot, pardon the pun, straight. The one that's not given to fanfare and political braggadocio.
He's already set the tone and lined up his targets. Now let's see what he does.
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