City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson has criticized Mayor Bloomberg's plan to raise the city sales tax by 8.875%, saying that a tax increase will hammer small businesses and cost thousands of people their jobs.Instead, Thompson supports a modest tax increase for those who earn $500,000 or more a year.
Thompson points to Mayor Bloomberg's plan to spend $45 million in city money to retrain bankers and traders who lost their Wall Street jobs as evidence that Bloomberg is out of touch with New York City's "Main Street".
Thompson has launched an effort to get feedback from ordinary New Yorkers, asking them to tell him what they think will best help New York's struggling economy.
If you'd like to respond to the Thompson survey, here's the link:
http://www.thompson2009.com/page/m2/55f6f0dd/685b5ea/3a0f0380/5eaf196/1596990226/VEsC/
