Kathy Hochul got it half right with her late awakening to slam the...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Ditto for Mayor Adams, who quietly went along with the tax but seems to have played no part in the rollback.
60% : Reports say the tax was so unpopular that fellow Democrats feared it would cost them House seats in the November election, so they asked Hochul for a reprieve.
55% : She also warned the tax would "create another obstacle to our continued economic recovery" from COVID.
54% : Besides, the impact on workers and the way the tax would filter through the economy to drive up the cost of nearly all goods and services in Manhattan would still be true, so it's hard to imagine her ever again defending the plan with a straight face.

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