Biagi To Travel To Albany On “Tax Cap Express” (Updated)
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Assembly Republican candidate Rob Biagi said this morning that he will head to Albany during the state Legislature’s emergency session Aug. 19 to fight to get a tax cap approved.
“The Governor courageously warned all members of the public and private sector that a record budget deficit looms ahead and that the era of spend now and pay later must be eradicated,” said Biagi, who is challenging Democratic incumbent George Latimer, D-Rye.
“Being a good assemblyman is not just about shaking hands and showing up at picnics, it’s about making tough choices on critical issues at the right times – and Latimer has been glad-handing his way through a previously booming real estate market when he should have been voting to cut spending and unfunded mandates from the get-go,” said Biagi. “We just can’t afford his spending sprees anymore.”
Of course, Assembly Democrats have given no indication that they will support a tax cap as Senate Republicans plans to return Aug. 8 to approve one.
Updated: Latimer reached out this afternoon to say that he’s meeting with school superintendents in his district to hear about the impact of a tax cap versus a circuit breaker, which would tie taxes to incomes.
Latimer said in an email that he met today with superintendents Paul Fried of Mamaroneck, Ed Shine of Rye City and Peter Mustich of Rye Neck in separate meetings to discuss the impacts of mandated spending, circuit-breaker provisions and the proposed school tax cap.
“Our state mandates testing; we mandate transportation services for children going out of district; we mandate services for special education students – all of these and more represent part of why school spending is higher year over year”, Latimer said. “If we don’t address the root causes that drive spending, then all the rhetoric out there – and I hear of lot of noise from ambitious and uninformed candidates who haven’t spent 10 minutes understanding the details – doesn’t mean a thing.”
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