Dear fellow New Yorker - after I posted this, I left to go vote on our school budget. Can you guess how I voted? :)
Bless you! Sadly, most of the school districts have contingency budgets that allow them to eliminate 'extra-curricula' programs such as sports, music, LRA (learning resources for disabled), etc.. This past week the National Teachers Association spent 1 million $s in advertising to pass these school budgets. We loose either way.
Last week, the local news carried a story on cell phone taxes. Did you know that NY State residents pay 21% in taxes on their cell phones!! The next highest rate was only 14%!!!
I am a native New Yorker - born, raised, educated and lived in NY all my life. The taxes are killing the middle class. If this continues, there will be only 2 groups remaining - the wealthy and the poor.