Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a New York City radio station that taxes should not be raised on just the upper class.
“If you want to raise taxes, don’t pick one class of people and say, ‘I think they have too much money,’ or ‘I don’t think they have enough money,’ or whatever,” Bloomberg said Friday, according to the
He was answering a question from a caller to his weekly radio show who wanted to know how he would have managed the recent battle in Washington over raising the debt ceiling. Bloomberg said he favored a combination of revenue enhancements and expense cuts.
Bloomberg’s attitude toward raising taxes on not only the wealthy, but also lower-income taxpayers, contrasted with an editorial for