"You can bet Schenectady" Tax payers will never see a property tax cut once the casino is open! "You can bet Schenectady" will see crime increasing! "You can bet Schenectady" will foreclose on your house!
"You can bet Schenectady" Tax payers will never see a property tax cut once the casino is open! "You can bet Schenectady" will see crime increasing! "You can bet Schenectady" will foreclose on your house!
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Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
By Freeman Klopott Jan 14, 2015 1:25 PM ET 2 Comments Email Print Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Save
Photographer: Andrew Burton/Getty Images New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who in November became the first Democrat re-elected to... Read More Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to give middle-class New Yorkers a $1.7 billion break on property taxes.
The plan announced at Hofstra University on Long Island today would provide credits to more than 1 million homeowners and another 1 million renters. The plan, which will be included in Cuomo’s proposed budget next week, builds on his effort to control what he says are the nation’s highest property levies.
“You have no long-term future if you are the tax capital of the nation,” said Cuomo, a 57-year-old Democrat.
Cuomo, who started his second term Jan. 1, pushed through a 2 percent property-tax cap in 2011. Last year, he won approval of a plan that paid for the cost of tax increases for homeowners who live in jurisdictions that stuck to the cap.
The proposal announced today would provide credits to homeowners who make less than $250,000 annually and whose property tax is more than 6 percent of their income. The credit is for as much as half the amount the taxes exceed the 6 percent threshold. Taxpayers would receive an average credit of $950, according to an e-mailed statement.
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Renters with incomes as much as $150,000 would also qualify for a credit if the portion of their annual gross rent attributed to property taxes is more than 6 percent of their income. The governor said in the statement that he estimates 13.75 percent of annual gross rent goes toward property levies.
Cuomo will pay for the tax credits by keeping annual spending growth below 2 percent, which produces a surplus because budget projections estimate higher spending increases, Morris Peters, a spokesman for the governor’s budget division, said by e-mail.
Similar proposals for providing state funding to help cut property-tax costs based on homeowner income levels have been floated in the past by Democrats in the legislature. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has historically supported those measures, will review the details of the governor’s, said Mike Whyland, a spokesman.
Democrats have had little luck getting Republicans who control the senate to agree. Dean Skelos, the Long Island Republican senate majority leader, said he’ll discuss specifics when Cuomo unveils his entire budget proposal Jan. 21.
“It is essential that any enacted property-tax relief plan ensures all middle-income families in every region of the state receive property tax relief,” he said in an e-mailed statement.
David Laska, a spokesman for the statewide Republican Party, said Cuomo’s plan won’t help in the long-term because it doesn’t relieve local governments of costs from programs required by the state.
“Giving a limited government handout to just a few hardworking taxpayers while ignoring the big picture -- mandate relief -- is putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole,” Laska said by e-mail.
To contact the reporter on this story: Freeman Klopott in Albany at fklopott@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Stephen Merelman at smerelman@bloomberg.net Stacie Sherman, Mark Schoifet
you treat them like the Alaskan pipeline.........
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
“Giving a limited government handout to just a few hardworking taxpayers while ignoring the big picture -- mandate relief -- is putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole,” Laska said by e-mail.
shuffling the deck chairs.....buying support
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
"YOU CAN BET" MCCARTHY'S RE-ELECTION BID WILL BE FINANCED BY GALESI & RUSH CASINO MILLIONAIRES & BILLIONAIRES #OUT OF TOUCH MAYOR
"You can Bet Sch'dy" Tax Payers will pay for the $3 million HUD DEMOLITION LOAN!
You can Bet Sch'dy" Tax Payers will pay for the $20 million TAJ MAHAL ON FOSTER AVE!
Naturally, like I have said over and over, they are getting kickbacks in return for the city/co/plex leaders RAPING AND STEALING from the struggling homeowners.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
"YOU CAN BET" MCCARTHY'S RE-ELECTION BID WILL BE FINANCED BY GALESI & RUSH CASINO MILLIONAIRES & BILLIONAIRES #OUT OF TOUCH MAYOR "You can Bet Sch'dy" Tax Payers will pay for the $3 million HUD DEMOLITION LOAN! You can Bet Sch'dy" Tax Payers will pay for the $20 million TAJ MAHAL ON FOSTER AVE!
Before Election the DEMS promised a MINIMUM 18% tax decrease if we get the casino. You no believe Joseph Goebbels? Here's what will increased crime, demand on social services, foreclosures. Hear that some idiots in the Stockade have dollar signs in the eyes wanting to rent to card dealers and waiters. Niagara Falls East-Atlantic City North. Compared in the international press to the depressed Catskills and South Bronx. Can't wait for the EIS.
Naturally, like I have said over and over, they are getting kickbacks in return for the city/co/plex leaders RAPING AND STEALING from the struggling homeowners.
EVERYONE gets kickbacks.....EVERYONE!!! any business that sells a product that can either be financed or paid for in cash....prefer 'financed'. WHY? Cause they get kickbacks from the financial institution!!! And don't think for a minute that the reps wouldn't be reaping the ' political kickback' benefits either. If you believe otherwise....I got a bridge to nowhere to sell ya!!
IT'S THE SYSTEM.....and right or wrong....it's how it works.....PERIOD!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
EVERYONE gets kickbacks.....EVERYONE!!! any business that sells a product that can either be financed or paid for in cash....prefer 'financed'. WHY? Cause they get kickbacks from the financial institution!!! And don't think for a minute that the reps wouldn't be reaping the ' political kickback' benefits either. If you believe otherwise....I got a bridge to nowhere to sell ya!!
IT'S THE SYSTEM.....and right or wrong....it's how it works.....PERIOD!!
YUP!!!!! that's why when people hear 'the state investigated'....they should be very very weary of it's solidity and felicity....
remember....just because something is illegal doesn't make it wrong and just because something is legal doesn't make it right...
things/people/animals without labels are FREE.....to choose.....
right or wrong is a personal standing....if not it becomes the taliban.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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Before Election the DEMS promised a MINIMUM 18% tax decrease if we get the casino. You no believe Joseph Goebbels? Here's what will increased crime, demand on
