Commie NY Mayor Bill de Blasio wants Albany to "allow New York City to tax itself"

By "allow New York City to tax itself" Blasio means sock it to the wealthy...

For those unfamiliar with New York tax law, the State of New York would have to hike the tax rate on New York City residents. Thankfully, the City Council and the Mayor can’t do it on their own. Cuomo, a liberal with sights on the White House in 2016, wants to appear as a pro-business Democrat. Raising taxes could haunt him now and in 2016. So, Cuomo throws Bill de Blasio a bone and says that he’ll fund universal pre-kindergarten without the tax hike. Sounds pretty reasonable for New York, right? Everyone wins?
Wrong. Bill de Blasio wants to make the rich hurt.

We’re simply asking Albany to allow New York City to tax itself – its wealthiest residents…those making a half-million or more a year.
Raising taxes on the rich makes our commitment to our kids more than just words. It makes that commitment REAL. It makes that commitment fair. And it offers a promise to our kids that they can count on.

What chutzpah! Allow New York City to tax itself?
Hey, Bill – if “the richest New Yorkers” wanted to pony up more money to pay for your pipe dream of universal pre-kindergarten, they wouldn’t need to do so under penalty of imprisonment.

Change: Rich neighborhoods claim de Blasio not snow plowing their streets...

Politics...

Via The NYP:

Huge swaths of the city’s wealthiest neighborhood had been not been plowed by early Tuesday evening, leaving 1-percenters out in the cold, according to the city’s own map of snow-plower activity.
“He is trying to get us back. He is very divisive and political,” said writer and Life-long Upper East Sider and mom Molly Jong Fast of Mayor de Blasio.
“By not plowing the Upper East Side, he is saying, ‘I’m not one of them.’ But we have everyone in this area on the Upper East Side. We have rich people, middle class people, and housing projects. We have it all.”
There appeared to be no snow plowing between East 59th and 79th Streets and between Second and Fifth Avenues.