Posted on 04/05/2020 9:13:05 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
New York was facing a $6 billion budget deficit even before the COVID-19 pandemic swept in to deliver a potential $10 billion blow to the state’s coffers. But Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Tuesday he was proud that he and the state’s lawmakers were still able to craft a “robust budget,” despite the circumstances.
“This is a particularly difficult budget because there is no money and there is much fear and there is much stress,” Cuomo said. “When we did the state of the state, we had a lot of policy ideas, a lot of reforms for this state that would help many, many New Yokers and make this state once again the progessive leader. On the environment, social justice, economic justice, racial justice—and all of those items are still in this budget,” the governor said. “So it’s not that we said, ‘Well, because we’re busy, we’re gonna scale back.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com ...
Hit him right between the eyes...Businesses don’t open,no taxes....People don;t spend,no taxes.....Annnnd Cuomo thought the money fairy just gave him all that free money....
Silly me. I thought JUSTICE was suppose to be blind.
Insane pensions left untouched
“This is a particularly difficult budget because there is (A) no money, (B) much fear, and, (C) much stress,” NY Gov Andrew Cuomo said.
"The environment, social justice, economic justice, racial justice—----all of those are still in the budget......
It’s not like we said, ‘Well, because we’re busy, we’re gonna scale back.' ”
to a democrat robust is how many zeros you write on the check and to a Republican is how many zeros is in the bank.
Republicans have NO power in NY State. They held on to the State Senate by a slim margin a decade ago, so they could prevent the absolute worst leftist corruption - but that has been swept away. Leftist Democrats literally control everything. NY is a one-party, ideologue, SJW state, run by top party apparatchiks skimming from Wall Street.
The silver lining of Coronavirus is that, with luck, it will bankrupt this progressive place and force some real change.
insane pensions and then no state income tax on them while all their retirees live in Florida, up to now a solid red state...
Maybe he can borrow some money from California.
sadly as in many states, the one large rat cabal in NYC rules the roost.....it doesn’t matter if most of upstate votes otherwise....
And ZERO spending cuts to ANYTHING.
New Yorkers voted for them. They can now enjoy the suck.
And the state assembly and state senate and Cuomo, himself gave themselves a raise!
New York State was facing a $6 billion budget shortfall WITHOUT the CCP Virus. That’s all been swept under the rug as the CCP Virus has thoroughly dominated all news coverage.
The $10 billion dollar reduction in the budget includes a chronic pre-existing condition....they were already $6 billion short.
(Notice the date of the article, before ANY word of the CCP Virus.)
New York faces its largest budget crisis in a decade. This is the reason why.
Democrat & Chronicle
JOSEPH SPECTOR | November 27, 2019
ALBANY - New York faces budget deficits between $6 billion and $8 billion over the next three years amid ballooning costs for Medicaid.
Budget documents released Friday afternoon showed the state faces its worst fiscal problems since the recession in 2010, when a $10 billion budget gap needed to be closed.
The state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo will need to come up with a balanced budget for the next fiscal year that starts April 1.
A $6 billion budget gap for the 2020-21 fiscal year could mean deep cuts in programs and services.
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Link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.democratandchronicle.com/amp/4274198002
Read the comments. They are biting at each other.
For be it from me to say openly, but I hope NY and NYC just implode.
I agree with you and will say so openly. Better to collapse socialism before it metastasizes.
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