When Mayor Adams presents his budget Thursday, consider the choices he's made and the impact on the working class and the services they rely on government to deliver. As a matter of leadership, he's giving away the store. At some point, we need to begin a conversation finally about who pays what and who subsidizes whom?
The mayor isn't wrong to be taking a cautious approach to the city's fiscal outlook. The local economy is still adapting to changes following the COVID-19 shutdown, lending uncertainty to tax revenues even as city-funded spending is growing, in part due to aiding thousands of asylum seekers as well as the expiration of pandemic-related federal aid used to pay for local programs.It is also true that spending is no guarantee of improved service delivery. But with services from applying for food stamps and cash advances to stave off evictions already in decline, and months long delays for residents to be placed in public housing and city-subsidized apartments, the steep budget cuts proposed by the mayor will almost certainly mean a further tumble.
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