Local Lawmakers React To Cuomo’s Budget Plan

At this juncture, that – not the deficit itself and not the new USA tax code – is the biggest challenge facing the Empire State.

Overall, Cuomo said the money would be used to help pay for education and health care, the two costliest items in the budget.

And there are many of what the administration calls “revenue actions”, accounting for just shy of $1 billion in tax receipts for a hungry budget that will total $168 billion in the coming year. However, based on what I’m seeing, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, in NY, it’s a tax.

“Washington hit a button and launched an economic missile”.

“Let’s not pass the buck”. Fred Akshar, R-Colesville, Broome County, wrote January 9 on Twitter. “A little self reflection goes a long way”.

Some Republican senators were less than sympathetic to Cuomo’s effort to paint the updated federal tax code as responsible for the state’s fiscal challenges.

New Yorkers, suggested Sen.

“I think the ways we address congestion take many forms, including some of the things that we’re talking about”, the mayor said.

Governor Cuomo’s record on housing has hurt New Yorkers.

NY could face billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid and health-care programs for the poor. He also touted the expansion of the state’s “free” SUNY/CUNY Excelsior Scholarship Program; the income ceiling for eligibility increased to $110,000 from $100,000 effective the next academic year.

Already, New York is sorting out the impact of the federal decision to end an individual mandate as part of Obamacare. “And it says New York”, Cuomo said in his address Tuesday afternoon. The health care costs wind up getting shifted to us.

“Governor Cuomo’s budget address was filled with outright lies created to scare New Yorkers and distract from his own massive failures running this state into the ground with the highest taxes in the nation, the highest debt burden, the worst business climate, and now, at least a $4 billion deficit”. Under the tax bill, the sizeable tax cuts the wealthiest Americans are receiving are being placed on the backs of middle class New Yorkers. But, if Gov. Cuomo was really interested in helping New York taxpayers, he would lower New York State income tax (which is one of the highest in the U.S.) to offset the new federal tax laws.

The payroll tax would be paid by employers based on the wages they pay their workers.

Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush says to blame the federal government on New York’s taxing and spending is wrong.

What we again continued to hear on Tuesday was the problems regarding the federal government during the budget address.

While his proposed smaller-than-anticipated 3 percent increase in state aid for education will spark a food fight, we hope it’s part of a larger conversation about how NY funds K-12 education.

For instance, the budget includes a 2.5 percent increase for Medicaid spending, $103 million more in funding for higher education, and a 3 percent increase in education spending.

Asked if his conference would support a $1 billion tax increase, Flanagan said, “no”. The final scheduled session day is March 29 – setting up an early budget adoption, or a late one. He added that he will review the budget and listen to his constituents on how it may impact them. The News noted that the Justice Department recently announced it would repeal an Obama-era policy that protected marijuana programs in various states. “This reckless tax-and-spend proposal will not protect taxpayers, but push them over the edge in search of more prosperous economic climates”.

“You can’t possibly get anywhere near where you want to be on education and health care unless you raise revenues”. “Local districts must give more funding to their poorer schools, period”.