AND HERE WE GO! Down the road towards the DemocRATS’ “new direction” Amerika!
Pimping a $121 billion slash-and-burn budget, when a $21 billion would do just fine...
Did I miss something in this "slash and burn" budget?
Can he “short” the taxpayers?
Don’t worry, Obama will bail out NYS and they can continue as before...Just glad I left. Liberal “paradise” in action.
The Economy shrinks but Government Bureaucrats never eat their own . . . they start coming after you and the way you live.
It won’t pass and the Truth about NY state and how they spend the money NOW . . . is hidden from view and replaced with “Pay to Live” for New Yorkers.
Govt. needs to shrink . . . its gonna be painfull pursuing these Tax increases.
Of course, I'm rather glad I'm not a participant in this particular experiment.
No mention of cost-of-living, pensions or any benefit reduction for government workers. It’s mind boggling that as people flee this state those of us remaining have to pick up the slack. I work two jobs and can barely hold my tongue when the person in front of me tells the butcher how thick to slice the steaks and breaks out the EBT card while I’m ordering pork and ground beef.
An 18% tax on a COKE??
What's this year's budget? I'll bet anything it's less than $121 billion.
These "cuts" probably aren't cuts at all.
STAR: The Executive Budget eliminates the STAR rebate program ($1.4 billion). The rebate is a check issued to homeowners and has no relation to an individual’s property tax bill.
We just got into this a few years ago and without coming to our house they reassessed us up $30,000
'Saturday Night Live' mocks Governor Paterson's blindness, past drug useSaturday Night Live pushed the envelope last night with... Fred Armisen as Paterson during a segment on "Weekend Update." ...Armisen, as Paterson, says he has three criteria: economic experience, upstate influence and someone with a disability who is completely unprepared for the job - just like him. "I want to choose a senator not from the glitzy coke parties of Manhattan but rather from the shabbier coke circles of upstate new york," he said. "I'm tired of all these fancy, two-eyed smart alecs from the big city running the whole show. It's time we get someone from Utica, Syracuse or Schnectady - towns where people have something a little off about him. I mean, they don't have to be blind," he said. "I just need someone with like a gamey arm or maybe the giant gums with the tiny teeth. Let's get one of those in the Senate." The fake Paterson points out that he only became governor because of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's prostition scandal. "Whoever is appointed senator must - like me - be caught totally off guard and be comically unprepared to take office," he said. "Come on, I'm a blind man who loves cocaine who was suddenly appointed governor of New York. My life is an actual plot from a Richard Pryor movie." |
Paterson In A Blind Rage Over 'SNL' Skit
Governor Paterson proposes 'Obesity Tax,' a tax on non-diet sodasGov. Paterson, as part of a $121 billion budget to be unveiled Tuesday, will propose an "obesity tax" of about 15% on nondiet drinks. This means a Diet Coke might sell for a $1 - even as the same size bottle of its calorie-rich alter ego would go for $1.15. Paterson's budget also calls for a 3% cut in education spending, a $620-a-year tuition hike at SUNY and a $600 increase at CUNY - and about $3.5 billion in health care cuts, a source said. The Democratic governor will not call for a broad-based income tax boost, but he will push to restore the sales tax on clothing and footwear... State employees again will be asked to forgo their 3% raises next year and defer five days' pay until they leave their jobs, the source said. In all, Paterson will propose about $9 billion in cuts, $4 billion in new taxes and fees, and $1.5 billion in nonrecurring revenue, a second source said. The so-called obesity tax would generate an estimated $404 million a year. Milk, juice, diet soda and bottled water would be exempt from the tax... Public health advocates welcomed news of the tax, saying it would help the fight against childhood obesity. "Raising the price of this liquid candy will put children and teens on a path to a healthier diet," said Elie Ward of the American Academy of Pediatrics of New York State.
by Glenn Blain and Kenneth Lovett
with Edgar Sandoval and Erica Pearson
Daily News Albany Bureau
Sunday, December 14th 2008
[and now, the buried lead:] The Paterson administration also announced steps yesterday to expand the state's social services net, including a 30% increase in welfare payments over three years starting January 2010, increased money for food banks and expanded access to the state's Family Health Plus program. Paterson also hopes to make it easier for people to enroll in Medicaid by eliminating face-to-face interviews and fingerprinting requirements.
Hey Dave! Does that mean you're going to send back those two antique carpets just recently bought for the Governor's Mansion?
The idiotic liberals in NY vote for people who institutes these taxes knowing full well they will do it. They shouldn't be aggrevated at all! I don't want to here one word of B and M from these losers!
I know a guy who retired from LIRR when he was in his early fifties and now doesn’t work at all and enjoys a healthy pension. With benefits.
You don’t have to excerpt the NY Daily News.
States like NY, Illinois, and California must enact REAL cuts, on the order of 25%, to make it. This would imply a 2009 NYS budget of around $90 billion, which should be easily achievable - the budget in 2001 was only $77 billion, for example.
The fact that a 57% increase in spending from 2001-2009 can be portrayed as a "slash-and-burn" budget with "dire" results containing "savage cuts" indicates how serious our conceptual and practical problem really is.
GOVERNMENT CANNOT BE CUT BY DEMOCRATIC MEANS.
Think about that.