Well, some of us did. But most New Yorkers believed Hillary Clinton gave a darn about this state of ours. Heh! Now that she doesn’t need the votes of New Yorkers she’s gone and stabbed the Big Apple’s taxpayers in the back.
In a surprise turnaround that will cost the city $260 million in back taxes and untold millions in future lost revenue, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department has quietly reversed a longstanding policy requiring foreign governments to pay taxes on some diplomatic residences.
It’s a shocking about-face by Secretary of State Clinton — who repeatedly spoke in favor of the city’s right to collect the taxes when she was New York’s junior senator.
The Big Apple, which recently won a federal court ruling requiring India and Mongolia to fork over some $46 million in back taxes, is expected to lose about $7 million a year in current tax revenues.
That number could dramatically increase in the future if property taxes rise.
Nice move in the middle of the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” One way New Yorkers can get back at Hillary is to vote her boss out of office in 2012 – sending her packing along with him. Just a thought!
