Rudy's Proven Track Record on Government Reform and Leadership at a Glance:

Boosting Economic Activity

Fiscal Discipline

$2.3 billion budget deficit was turned into a $2.9 billion surplus by FY 2001
Reduced city government spending as percentage of city GDP every year except 2001
New York's economy grew nearly twice as fast as government spending did
$11.9 billion in savings by controlling the growth in projected city-funded spending alone (FY 95-01)

Cutting Taxes

23 taxes were reduced or eliminated including sales, income, and business taxes
$9+ billion in tax savings for individuals & businesses
17% reduction in New Yorkers' tax burden to the lowest level in 3 decades
Cut the City's Hotel Occupancy Tax from an effective 20.6% to 14.6%; saved guests $161 million between 1995 and 2002 and increased revenue for the city by almost 90% from $127 million to $239 million

Fighting Corruption

Appointed as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York by President Reagan to fight & reduce corruption in Wall Street (Financial District)
The most prolific and anticorruption U.S. Attorney in history with 4,152 convictions and only 25 reversals (From '83 to '89)

Improving Education

$4 billion of additional investment/spending in the city's schools (from $8 billion to $12 billion)
Hired 8,000+ new teachers
Worked with the School Board to end social promotion
Supported school choice by creating the Charter School Initiative in 1999, which led to creation of 17 such schools by the Fall 2001
Created Charter School Improvement Fund in 2000, which offered grants of up to $250,000 to each new Charter School

Welfare Reform

Nearly 1 of every 7 New Yorkers was on Welfare (1.1 million) in 1994 (before becoming Mayor)
640,000+ cut from city welfare rolls, to the lowest number since 1966 (more than the populations of Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming, or D.C.)
Turned Welfare offices into Job Centers, which created 151,376 jobs in FY2001

Fighting Crime

66% cut in Murder Rate; from 1,946 in 1993 (pre-Giuliani) to 649 in 2001 (post-Giuliani)
Over 72% drop in shootings
11,545 major crimes per week in 1993; cut to 5,072 in 2001
56% drop in the FBI Crime Index between 1993 and 2001, far outpacing 16% decline in national crime index
Crime reduction between 1993 and 2001: Rape, -45.7%; Robbery, -67.2%; Larceny, -43%; Motor Vehicle Theft, -73.3%

Quality of Life

According to a 1990 (pre-Giuliani) Time magazine poll, 59% of New Yorkers said they would live somewhere else if they could
By 1997 (post-Giuliani), New York was ranked the city that most Americans wanted to live in
37.4 million tourists in 2000 (post-Giuliani), up from 26.7 million in 1993 (pre-Giuliani)
2,035 acres of new parkland acquired - the most since the 1960s

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Source: Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee

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