Newsday reports on the wacky ideas of Mayor Bloomberg:
Revving up his latest drive to tax commuters, Mayor Michael Bloomberg claimed Monday that suburban property values rise and fall on the city's success.
"Property values are up because of their proximity to the city," Bloomberg said at a news conference in Queens. "If the city weren't safe, their property values wouldn't be as high ..."
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy says it is:
"insane" to suggest that Long Island property values rely on city prosperity.
"You think that people pay these kind of prices because they can get on a train and go into the city? That's ludicrous," said Ed Dumas, Levy's spokesman. "People come out here because of the schools, open space, the beaches and safe living."
When you have less private sector jobs than 1969 maybe things aren't working so well in New York city.
