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Well, if anyone wants to go back to the NYS ciggie tax thing, NYS doesn't have a revenue problem.

We have a SPENDING problem.

Case in point...

(New York) State put freeze on hiring, then added 51,464 people

But state officials hired 51,464 people at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 billion in salaries, plus fringe benefits, since that decree on July 30, 2008.

The hires include sons of elected officials, a close friend of the governor’s and a slew of highly paid political appointees.

Noto to our gov-elect who's supposedly running around trying to find places to cut: Here are 50,000 to start with.

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And note to Matt Lauer: If you’re so hot to pay more income tax, pard, nobody’s stopping you from writing a check to the IRS. Put your money where you mouth is.