Smoke and mirrors, nothing to see here. Another branding moment for JC. If you don't want to be taxed, then I (Fulop) wont tax you.

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Ah, the partisan days we live in, where centrists are called out by their parties as closet republicans by Liberals and Rhinos by the Conservatives.

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That's a big reason why I voted for him. Go Fulop! Say it like it is!

Is he finally coming out of the closet?..........

.............As a republican?

When large corporations don't pay their share of taxes we end up paying for it through payrole taxes, property taxes, loss of services and failing infrastructure. But since politicians are on their payrole there's not much we can do about it.

If I'm De Blasio, I shrug my shoulders and ask "who the hell is Steven Fulop"?

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Attracting investment to JC was part of his election platform, and does impact residents directly. That investment peaked shortly after 9/11 but dried up during the Healy years. If all we get in the next few years is another Goya stolen from Secaucus, that would be a failure. That doesn't mean Steve should ignore the day-to-day stuff. He'll be judged at the end of his term on both.

Could Fulop stop trying to keep his name in the headlines and focus on actually running the city?

At the very least could he stop his blatant and incessant posturing to raise his state-wide profile and use his platform to advocate for concrete issues that impact his residents?

Steven Fulop is a Bluedog Democrat.

sounds to me like fulop is an _______. although i hate the fact that my taxes are going up, etc, there is obvioulsy a well documented and increasing wealth gap that de Blasio is highlighting.

Fulop can go frack himself

Ugh. Steven Fulop?...What's polarizing is the disparity between rich and poor. See Fulop's quote in
"Jersey City Mayor Picks an Unlikely Target
Steven Fulop Says New York City Mayor's Rhetoric 'Has People Terrified'" http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/S ... 3801304579407550834673142
In rare criticism directed across the Hudson River, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said Wednesday that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to raise income taxes on the wealthy had frightened the business community.

"His polarizing rhetoric has people terrified," Mr. Fulop said in an interview. "There is a lot of uncertainty about what his administration will do, and it's an opportunity for us to recruit businesses" to New Jersey.

The comments came ahead of Mr. Fulop's state of the city speech on Thursday night, part of which he said he would devote to the opportunities Mr. de Blasio's liberal agenda creates for Jersey City. Messrs. Fulop and de Blasio are Democrats.

Phil Walzak, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio, said many upper-income people support a modest tax increase on those making more than $500,000 to pay for prekindergarten seats and afterschool programs. "This is a long term investment that lifts everyone in the city," he said. "A lot of [Mr. Fulop's] concerns are alarmist and not matched by reality."

The unusual spat partly reflects the headwinds facing Mr. de Blasio's tax plans within his own party. The tax needs approval in Albany, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat, is opposed to any new taxes and has proposed paying for prekindergarten from existing revenue.

It also comes as political observers say Mr. Fulop is positioning himself to run for governor in 2017. Mr. Fulop?seen as a pragmatic liberal?has followed Mr. de Blasio's positions on other issues, passing a paid sick leave bill and speaking in support of more pre-kindergarten seats.

But on the income-tax plan, Mr. Fulop's message is similar to that heard from some New York Democrats. "You can have progressive ideals without taxing people for no good reason," he said.

The move is a sharp political signal from Mr. Fulop, a former Goldman Sachs trader who speaks quickly and with much bravado about Jersey City, the state's second largest with about 250,000 people. He has carved out an ambitious profile, meeting with President Barack Obama and drawing national headlines after accusing Gov. Chris Christie's administration of political retribution.

He is one half of the "two Steves" dominating talk of the 2017 Democratic gubernatorial nomination contest, said Ben Dworkin, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University. The other is state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, who has moved to oppose the governor on several fronts this year. Mr. Christie can't run for a third term.

"Nobody else is making aggressive moves to raise their profile on a statewide basis like these two," Mr. Dworkin said.

Mr. Fulop said he had no intention of running for governor in 2017. "Three years down the road, I don't think so," he said.

He isn't the first Jersey City mayor to try to lure New York City businesses, but his predecessors generally steered clear of such direct criticisms.

Experts said they doubted droves of companies would leave New York because of a tax increase on the wealthiest earners.

"Look at the cost of doing business in New York City already. People are willing to pay higher costs because it's darn profitable," said James Parrott, chief economist at the labor-backed Fiscal Policy Institute.

Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, said New Yorkers should worry that Mr. de Blasio wants to raise taxes as a "first resort" but she said she doubts Manhattan's major companies would quickly move unless city services aren't delivered.

"If you're a top-tier investment bank, you're going to be in Manhattan because all your competitors are there," Ms. Gelinas said. "It's easy to oversell and say everyone is going to leave."

Mr. Fulop said he would use aggressive tax abatements and available state grants and subsidies. He plans to tout the city's economic renaissance in recent years, with an influx of art galleries, restaurants and people.