Assembly leader warns against “backpedaling”

July

Â Â Following Gov. David Paterson’s televised address on New York State’s bleak fiscal outlook, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said his members are ready to helpÂ get New York’s financial house in order. However, it’s important not to “backpedal” on progress that has been made in providing additional money for pre-kindergarten classes, class-size reduction, nursing home and home-care services, and other programs and services, he said.

Â Â “Our answer is that middle class families and our working poor must not be forced to bear the brunt of such cuts. I and my Assembly colleagues believe that this state must not backpedal on the important progress we have made for the hardworking families of this state,” Silver said in a statement.

Â Â Silver said he would support a school property-tax cap only if it doesn’t reduce funding for education and be based on homeowners’ ability to pay. The governor and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, support a cap, and the Senate is returning to Albany next month to vote on the issue.

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5 Responses to “Assembly leader warns against “backpedaling””

tax cap now July 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
It is about time that Sheldon Silver agrees that it is time for a Tax Cap. Now let him put his money where his mouth is and sa vote on this issue. et a date for
Change July 29th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I listened to the Governors speech he never mentioned cutting pre-Kindergarten classes, class size reduction, nursing home and home-care services, and other programs and services.

You can see by his statement what special interest groups he and the Democrat Assembly bow down to. Cuts should be made to everything accross the board. Everyone should share in the pain, not one group over the other.

Until Sheldon Silver and the other leadershiop in the Assembly is gone there will be no real change in the way the State does business.

It is truly time for a CHANGE in Albany this year.
Vote July 30th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Vote REPUBLICAN for the Assembly this year.
Somers Republican July 30th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
The proposed TAX CAP is only a partial solution and schools will still be able to raise taxes 4% easily enough. Even if a school only needed to spend 2%, they would build in the excess 2% just to have the taxable funds. NOT GOOD. Tax cap should be lower and hooked in with senior citizens ability to pay on a fixed income level. Just the CAP is not going to stop raising school taxes as schools will put up separate votes for other spending plans by heavy promotion to special interest groups to vote yes. So up up and away the taxes will still go. AMEND THIS TAX CAP TO HAVE reductions for the senior citizens as they can not afford to stay in their homes.
Vote Republicans for the State Assembly July 30th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Cuts must be made we can not continue to tax and spend. It gets us in situations like we are currently in.

Vote for the new crop of Republicans running for the state assembly this year. It will send a message that we will not take it anymore.

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