NY Daily News Op-Ed - Albany: Where NYC dreams go to die

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/albany-nyc-dreams-die-article-1.1575835#ixzz2qDwigWxJ

Albany is giving the mayor agita. He wants something that would affect only New York City, and yet state lawmakers representing areas closer to Cleveland than Canarsie won’t deliver.

“The city should be in charge of its own destiny,” he thundered. “That’s why we had the revolution in 1776.”

That mayor wasn’t Bill de Blasio, but Mike Bloomberg in 2012, asking why upstate lawmakers from towns with perhaps a single stoplight can regulate how many red-light cameras New York City can use.

While the current mayor isn’t yet mulling Yankee Doodle-style insurrection, his anger at Albany is percolating. He wants higher taxes on city residents earning more than half a million dollars a year, to pay for pre-kindergarten and middle school afternoon programs. The reply from the north: Maybe. Maybe not.

[Squinch]

1. Oh, god. The rural republicans upstate are going to screw this up, aren't they?

I bet ALEC and the Koches are working like little termites on this.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. My thoughts exactly.

If the reps from the city are so easily bought off, imagine the price tags on people from Elmira and Jamestown.

No offense to upstaters. We're all in this together.

[Squinch]

4. No offense to upstate Democrats. The Republicans are another story.

[hrmjustin]

3. I hope not but it looks like they will try.