Christine Quinn's State of City Address

Council Speaker Christine Quinn gave her state of City Address on Thursday which proposes

a tax increase on wealthy New York residents and tax relief for low income city residents .NY1



She stated that the city faces a $4billion dollar defceit and more than 50,000 jobs lost and those

who are employed are afraid of losing their jobs.



Some of her proposals are as follows.



1. a plan to convert vacant conominiums into affordable housing,

2. She wants to bring back jobs from San Diego and Boston

3. She wants stiffer penalties for those who commit a crime as part of gang initation



These are very good proposals. But as Jmes Oddo stated, he may consider supporting it if

it was tied directly to the budget cuts. He went on to say that you can't simply tax rich people.

He states that the city needs to do less spending.



The downside to her Address was that she didn't really talk on the severity of the crisis in the

city.



She did not mention anything on medicad, pension, capital programs. No mention about reforms

which is important, people need to hear on what actions the city will be taking.



I thought this was an interesting article because it shows that Councilwoman has good proposals

but needs to show how she plans on putting these proposal into action. She should have touched

on the severity of how the econmonic crisis is affecting New Yorkers as a whole.