Number Of Democrats Supporting De Blasio’s Tax Hike On NYC’s Wealthy: ZERO

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Posted: Jan 06, 2014 11:08 AM

Newly-elected Bill de Blasio, the first Democrat mayor in New York City in 20 years, wants to fund city-wide pre-k education by raising taxes on New Yorkers who earn more than $500,000 a year. So how’s de Blasio’s proposal going over? Not even New York’s liberal senator Chuck Schumer supports it. Schumer, a leader of the Democrats’ push to raise federal income taxes on the rich, said Sunday he won’t back de Blasio’s crusade to slap higher taxes on wealthy New Yorkers.

Number Of Democrats Supporting De Blasio’s Tax Hike On NYC’s Wealthy: ZERO

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