{"id":121394,"date":"2026-02-03T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121394\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:02:07","slug":"higher-taxes-are-the-last-thing-new-york-city-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/121394\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Taxes Are the Last Thing New York City Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/person\/adam-lehodey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Lehodey<\/a>          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">The city doesn\u2019t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Higher Taxes Are the Last Thing New York City Needs<\/p>\n<p><a data-post-link=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cityjournal.substack.com\/p\/higher-taxes-are-the-last-thing-new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read on Substack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>              <a class=\"m_link link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank. Are you interested in supporting the magazine? As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, donations in support of MI and City Journal are fully tax-deductible as provided by law (EIN #13-2912529).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Lehodey The city doesn\u2019t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. Higher Taxes Are the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-121394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}