Mayor DeBlasio goes gutless and heralds deal that will ask nothing of the rich for his universal pre-k

Politicians never get tired of putting their cowardice, their lack of balls, on display when it comes to asking anything from the rich. New York Mayor, Bill DeBlasio, was elected in a landslide, in part due to his pledge to raise taxes on the wealthy in order to pay for universal pre-K. However, he is now heradling a great victory because the state legislature decided it will give him the money, but it won't come from higher taxes on the rich, it will  come from "state money."

WTF is state money? There is no such thing as state money. The state is not the Federal government. The state has no money. State money is literally our money: it's the money the state gets through taxation or the money it holds on to when it chooses not to recycle it back to us in the form of spending.

This was a sneaky and clever little plan and DeBlasio fell for it. He apparently doesn't see that funding universal pre-k with state money means once again, of course, that this plan will be paid for by the middle class and poor because it will ultimately come from budget money that was or would have been allocated to programs for the middle class and the poor.

I have to admit I have gone back and forth on DeBlasio. I supported him, then I thought he quickly sold out, but recently I thought he was getting better. Now I'm back to thinking he's a weak, poorly advised, gutless sellout.