经济学人:下一步，创造奇迹

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Summary:
一位在其位谋其政的纽约州长
HINTS:
Eliot Spitzer
Albany
David Paterson
Andrew Cuomo
Democrat
Tax Foundation
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For four years New York was adrift. When Eliot Spitzer, a crusading lawyer, became governor in 2007, his uncompromising ways caused political gridlock in Albany, the state capital. Just over a year later, he was caught frolicking with a prostitute and resigned. His successor, David Paterson, was affable enough, but too weak to push the state legislature to balance the books. When Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat like his predecessors, handily won the 2010 governor's race on a promise to "rebuild the government, restore competence, restore trust, and get the people of this state believing once again", New Yorkers gave a cynical snort.
But Mr Cuomo has had an extraordinary year. In the first six months of his term he could point to three historic achievements. First, he balanced the budget, not only bringing spending under control, filling a $10 billion hole and nudging the public-sector unions to make concessions worth $450m, but putting mechanisms in place to control spending in future. He even got the cantankerous legislature to agree. In June Mr Cuomo brought in a cap on property taxes, in a state which the Tax Foundation ranks as the sixth-most-taxed in the country.近四年来，纽约的政局并不稳定。2007年，时任州长艾略特•斯皮策，他律师出身，作风凌厉，毫不妥协。这种做法曾让纽约州首府奥尔巴尼一度陷入政治僵局。且任职仅一年多，斯皮策就陷入招妓门事件，辞去了州长职务。民主党人大卫•帕特森继任，他亲和有余，力度不足，无力推动纽约州立法机构平衡财政收支。同为民主党人的安德鲁•科莫，于2010年参加州长竞选，并轻松取胜。他承诺要“重建政府，重塑能力，重拾信任，让州民能够再次相信政府”。纽约民众曾对此不以为然。
但科莫继任一年来，政绩斐然，任期前半年便取得三大有历史意义的成就。首先，他平衡了纽约的财政收支，填补了100亿美元的财政漏洞，并促使公共机构的工会做出了4.5亿美元的让步。此举不仅使当前的财政花销得到控制，而且使相关部门机构各司其职，以控制今后的花销。更为难得的是，他甚至征得了一向刁钻苛刻的立法机构的同意。六月，科莫引入财产税上限政策，此前按税务基金会的统计，纽约州的税收排名全国第六。