Probably for the same reason his nose started out like the hood scoop on a Pontiac Trans-Am and ended up as dainty as Nicole Kidman's.
Cuomo announces income tax revenues have dropped by $2.3B
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Cuomo attributed the revenue drop in December and January largely to the new federal tax code, as well as volatility in the stock market and other uncertainties.
“That’s a $2.3 billion drop in revenues. That’s as serious as a heart attack. This is worse than we had anticipated,” the governor said in Albany.
“This reduction must be addressed in this year’s budget.”
Cuomo’s preliminary analysis claims much of the impact is coming from a drop in revenues from the state’s highest income earners most impacted by the loss of write-offs of state and local tax deductions, known as SALT.
The federal law approved by President Trump and the then-GOP controlled Congress limited SALT deductions to $10,000.
The loss of revenue from New York’s wealthiest puts New York in a bind because the state relies on a progressive income tax system that taxes the rich at a higher rate.
130 students arrested in visa sting operation in United States face civil immigration charges
The 130 students arrested so far in a “pay-to-stay” sting operation using a fake university face only civil immigration charges, according to media reports.
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“We have arrested 130 foreign nationals on civil immigration charges,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson Carissa Cutrell was quoted as telling the Detroit Free Press on Thursday. She added that more of them could be arrested.
Those students who knowingly participated in scam knowing it was not a genuine academic programme face deportation.
Eight people who allegedly ran the scam as recruiters of the students face criminal charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harbouring aliens for profit and face maximum sentences of five years, according to the ICE service.
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