Posted on 03/20/2011 3:49:23 AM PDT by jimbo123
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has rightly argued that painful spending cuts will be needed to close New York’s projected $10 billion deficit. The hard truth is that it is impossible to cut spending deeply without cutting the state’s huge outlays for education and health care. That means that New York’s most vulnerable citizens — schoolchildren, the elderly, the poor, the sick — will feel a disproportionate amount of the pain.
Governor Cuomo has vowed to make the tough decisions and not to be swayed by special-interest pleadings. But he is refusing to impose any new taxes or even continue a current surcharge on New York’s wealthiest and least vulnerable citizens.
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if this is true then kudo;s to Cuomo
and I campaigned heavily against him
Christie may be more the blowhard, Cuomo the cutter, at this point.
SNORT.
From last year, and be sure to check out the price tag....
(New York) State put freeze on hiring, then added 51,464 people
What they do not say is this money does not ‘go’ to the poor. When they pay for medical care, doctors collect the money. When they pay for education, teachers collect the money.
Both the doctors and the teachers have an incentive to do as little as possible while collecting as much as possible, and in NY that’s what they do.
These sentences are used so often that the NYT has them programmed into the editorial writers' software. Simply hit F9.
Cuomo will however continue mandatory dues collections for state government employees.
That’s why he isn’t getting the union grief that his Republican counterpart in Wisconsin is.
The union leadership is primarily interested in keeping the flow of dues money coming in- the interest in the welfare of the members they profess isn’t nearly as strong as their interest in their own well-being.
The union leadership aren’t state employees, Cuomo’s cuts won’t affect them directly at all.
Every time a politician runs for office they promise more money for education and for the poor.
Buying their votes.
When the poor and the kids have been getting the grease for years it stand to reason that the first cuts lower the amount of lubrication for them.
Thats tough, but they have been getting the gravy for years, it’s time they felt the pain like everyone else.
That was Patterson, not Cuomo.
That’s amazing.
No?
Then that's on Cuomo.
Assuming that it is true, the cuts wouldn’t be nearly as painful had the state government watched the bottom line during the good times, instead of maximing hiring opportunities.
It's bleeping NYS.
SSDD.
The best thing that could happen to this state is for us to go belly up.
“New York’s most vulnerable citizens — schoolchildren, the elderly, the poor, the sick — will feel a disproportionate amount of the pain”?
Not meaning to sound callous BUT, when did I the taxpayer become responsivble for everyones children, old or sick?
I should be responsible for MY family not some damn village.
When drafting contracts that want to be safe in determining an allowance for income taxes, of all the possible references to states New York’s rates are typically referenced to be sure that the taxes are covered.
They did this in NJ under Corzine and 100's of billions in money left the state. People don't get rich sitting around waiting to be fleeced.
We all have an obligation regarding our neighbors. God made us this way. We must see they have food, drink and shelter.
The problem is we also must create a situation that creates in them the desire to work and contribute as well because they also have an obligation to their neighbors. Our current systems remove these incentives and tells them the lie that they cannot do for themselves.
This evil we have created feeds the resentment you and I have when we are called to keep this broken system. Instead of feeling compassion for these trapped people we feel anger for them and their keepers.
the Times editorial board forgets that we are freemen, not serfs. That includes the wealthy who are more mobile than most. Raise taxes and they leave for more hospitable environments. See Rush Limbaugh, and Tom Golisano for the most notable, and many onthers who are just as wealthy but are lower profile.
Can’t wait for the Times to go broke.
Same thing in MD. The "millionaire's tax" they imposed here drove lots of rich people to just move out.
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