Posted on 12/16/2008 7:44:18 PM PST by NYTexan
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's proposed $121 billion budget hits New Yorkers in their iPods - and nickels-and-dimes them in lots of other places, too.
Trying to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, Paterson called for 88 new fees and a host of other taxes, including an "iPod tax" that taxes the sale of downloaded music and other "digitally delivered entertainment services."
"We're going to have to take some extreme measures," Paterson said Tuesday after unveiling the slash-and-burn budget.
The proposal, which needs legislative approval, did not include broad-based income tax increases, but relied on smaller ones to raise $4.1 billion from cash-strapped New Yorkers.
Movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars and massages would be taxed under Paterson's proposal. It also extends sales taxes to cable and satellite TV services and removes the tax exemption for clothes costing less than $110.
"The governor is nickel-and-diming working class families," said Ron Deutsch, executive director of New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, an advocacy group.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Ya best get out fast...
Fredricksburg is beautiful hill country west of Austin.
We even have a FReeper there!
It’s too hot in Texas.
Although Air Conditioning / refrigeration was invented in Buffalo, NY...we have plenty of it in Texas!
The Democrats are destroying my place of birth!
It was some relief while I was pay’n it...
I was born 4 blocks from where I live and grew up at the foot of a mountain in Lake George. I truly love where I live. Yeah, I’m too old to like snow anymore, but still...
We’ve always been a service industry area because of the tourism, but it’s when the tourists buy property instead of just visiting that is destroying us.
You are married to where you live. For better or worse, you will call it home for as long as you live.
I wish you well!
True...and thanks. I lived away from here - CT, St. Louis, Minneapolis, but always longed for home. Eastern upstate NY is in my heart and who I am I guess.
I have 55 windows. That’s my a/c. ;)
Nice! Good luck with the heating bill!
Is the humidity tolerable there? I can handle high temperatures if it's dry.
He couldn’t see that!
Welllll, I guess I won’t be visiting NYC or Upstate NY anymore. Way to go PATERSON! Keep all those tourist dollars out of New Yawk....
bttt
Libs are delusional. That’s the only aswer I can come up with.
Patterson, you idiot, all you are doing is shrinking the tax base.
On the bright side, the level of abject stupidity might finally get through to the equally delusional lib voters. But I doubt it.
“NY State is on a bobsled ride to hell...
Y’all get out before they close the exits!”
But whatever you do, don’t bring any libdolts with you!
Soon to be moving to TX myself. Ohio isn’t as bad as NY, but it is getting there! (Yup, Texans, yet another d@mn Yank moving to TX. Don’t worry, though - I am NOT a lib.)
Love the new obesity tax on soda. When will they be taxing the air I breathe???
West Texas is really dry. Odessa-Midland
You have FReepmail
Hurry up!
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