Over the past weeks and months, we have had many conversations about the tax cap and why we felt it was a necessary tool for New York to start to control costs. We also knew that in order for the cap to be as effective as possible, there needed to be significant and meaningful mandate [...]
As we close out October, there has been a great deal of talk around the state about the tax cap and many municipalities looking to override it. It is not something that I would recommend as I wouldn’t want to tell people that elect me why I was raising their taxes when a cap is [...]
As I have been known to do from time to time on this blog, I think it is important to share what other people are saying about issues that are important to us. Today, that special guest is EJ McMahon from the Empire Center for New York State Policy (http://www.empirecenter.org/).
Please take a moment to read [...]
Five reasons we’re counting down the days (all 77 of them) ‘til Election Day (aka Judgment Day) …
5). While New York families have been making cuts to their household budgets and getting by with less, Albany lawmakers ok’d a budget that spends a whopping $136 billion of taxpayers’ money. That’s an increase of $5.4 [...]
