Word: abzug
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...must be reformed to,save many millions. She would sack incompetent hacks and hire professional administrators. She would tidy up the sloppy procedures that keep New York from getting the maximum out of federal subsidies. Hundreds of millions in real estate and sales taxes now go uncollected each year; Abzug pledges to go after them: "I know where the money...
...perspiring. Her left fist kayoes phantom adversaries in the air. Candidate Carter promised a federal takeover of welfare, and Candidate Abzug would hold him to it. "The city of New York has to organize and seek coalitions of the people, and mayors, and Governors and members of Congress and labor and the banks to insist that there is a national movement, and we in the city of New York need a billion dollars to take care of our streets, our teachers, our sanitation, our housing, our hospitals, our senior centers, our child-care centers...
Abruptly, Abzug changes tempo, modulates to a reassuring croon. "That's why you're going to elect me mayor." There is electricity in the synagogue sanctuary now, and Abzug delights in every watt. "I may break my neck in the process, but I'm going to do it!" Somewhere in the back, a middle-aged housewife shouts: "Right...
Most of the candidates accept this argument. But Abzug seems emotionally unable to settle for that. Though she pledges administrative reform, and acknowledges the need to keep business and attract new firms through partial tax exemptions and expansion of industrial parks, she also argues that New York must restore such services as free undergraduate tuition at City University when resources permit...
According to most experts, the city's hospital system must be scaled back and better meshed with private institutions, which also get public money. Abzug says she is uncertain whether a large reduction in hospital beds is necessary...