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New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Fiscal Record: 1993-2001
1993
2001
1993-2001
Murders
           1,927
              618
-67.9%
Overall crime
       430,460
       155,414
-63.9%
Vehicle thefts
       111,622
         34,311
-69.3%
       
Top personal-income-tax rate
4.46%
3.54%
-20.6%
Tax burden: Overall
8.8%
7.3%
-17.0%
Tax burden: Family of four earning $75,000
15.0%
12.1%
-19.3%
Tax burden: Family of four earning $50,000
13.5%
10.3%
-23.7%
Tax burden: Family of four earning $25,000
10.9%
7.2%
-33.9%
       
Hotel-tax rate
6.0%
5.0%
-16.7%
Hotel-occupancy rate
69.5%
84.6%
21.7%
Hotel-tax revenue ($ millions)
115
235
104.3%
       
Commercial-rent tax for firms paying $250K+ in rent below Manhattan's 96th St.
6.0%
3.9%
-35.0%
Commercial-rent tax for all other firms elsewhere in New York City
6.0%
0.0%
-100.0%
Companies subject to commercial-rent tax
80,000
5,000
-93.8%
Commercial-rent tax revenue ($ millions)
630
377
-40.2%
Commercial carting costs ($/cubic yard) after crackdown on Mafia trash trucks
14.20
7.70
-45.8%
       
Average, annual growth in NYC inflation
                 -  
                 -  
3.9%
Average, annual growth in NYC government spending
                 -  
                 -  
2.9%
       
City-funded employees: Police - uniformed officers
36,340
40,710
12.0%
City-funded employees: Board of Education - pedagogues
69,002
77,843
12.8%
City-funded employees: All others
117,494
97,338
-17.2%
City-funded employees: Total
222,836
215,891
-3.1%
       
Children in foster care
47,509
29,705
-37.5%
Welfare recipients
1,112,490
469,142
-57.8%
Unsold, abandoned (In rem), city-owned housing units  
30,358
6,733
-77.8%
       
Construction permits
         46,048
         71,421
55.1%
Unemployment rate
10.4%
5.7%
-45.2%
Private employment
    2,703,600
    3,115,200
15.2%
  
Personal income ($ billions)
           202.9
           310.5
53.0%
Population
    7,329,079
    8,008,278
9.3%
Sources: "Restoring Accountability to City Government"; Presentation by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, December 19, 2001; http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/2001b/121901_files/frame.htm

Preliminary Fiscal 2001 Mayor's Management Report (Summary Volume); http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/downloads/pdf/2001_mmr/0201_summary.pdf

Fiscal 2001 Mayor's Management Report (Agency Narratives); http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/downloads/pdf/2001_mmr/0901_vol1.pdf

Tax Rates and Tax Burdens in the District of Columbia: a Nationwide Comparison, 1993 and 2001 (Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Government of Washington, D.C.).

New York City Department of Finance

Note: Giuliani was the 107th mayor of the City of New York from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 2001.
 
Compiled by Deroy Murdock, contributing editor, National Review Online - February 13, 2007.