The Bloomberg administration and the City Council are up in arms because of Governor Pataki’s decision to snub Chinatown and instead give a low-tax “Empire Zone” to an upstate district represented by the State Senate’s Republican leader, Joseph Bruno. Our advice: Get over it. If the mayor and the City Council really believe that lower taxes spur economic growth, they might lower some of the city’s own taxes instead of relying on targeted programs that emanate from Albany. Instead, they’ve been raising the city’s property taxes and cigarette taxes and they are talking about raising personal income taxes. No wonder Mr. Pataki has been putting the bulk of the Empire Zones upstate. At least the politicians there appreciate the value of tax cuts. More broadly, this debacle is an argument for making future tax cuts effective on an across-theboard basis, rather than limiting them to certain zones.