Tedisco To Silver: We Need a Tax Cap, Not Tax Slap
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Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, R-Schenectady, who is often good at a turn a phrase has a new one: Tax Cap, Not Tax Slap.
And he’s addressing it, literally, to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is blocking attempts to get a school-property-tax cap approved in his chamber. The state Senate is set to come back Aug. 8 to approve the measure.
Tedisco, right with a tax cap hat, wrote a letter to Silver today imploring him to come back to Albany and approve the cap.
“Mr. Speaker, all across our state New Yorkers are hurting. Our constituents
to us to make real property tax relief a reality. We can ill-afford to miss this opportunity
the people we have the privilege of serving who genuinely need our assistance,” Tedisco wrote.
Silver has said that a tax cap could hurt aid to education, and is even downplaying Gov. Paterson’s warning about the state’s economic woes, saying yesterday that Paterson should wait a few more weeks before getting all worked up.
Senate Republicans were saying today that when they pass the tax cap, they’ll also seek some mandate relief for schools—which certainly would be a way to cool concerns from powerful education interests about the cap.
There is also some talk about whether the Senate would do a circuit breaker, which would tie taxes to a percentage of household income. When I asked Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos about it yesterday, he said it was something they would continue to look into.
“We’re really analyzing what the circuit breaker would mean,” he said. “Some individuals would want to eliminate the STAR program and the STAR rebate program to do that. If you do that, hundreds of thousands of people in New York state are going to lose a real property tax break. So we’re analyzing that and going to respond to that proposal.”
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Tedisco is right we need property tax relief. Right here in our backyard we have Assemblywoman Sandra Galef who is the chair of that comittee. Her and Silver are responsible for not bringing this to the floor so all the assemblymembers could vote on it. Shame Shame, .Ms. Galif you have a real opportunity to make a differance here, but you choose to sit and do nothing.
Sandra Galif you are handing this next election over to your opponent William Gouldman he is very smart and capable challenger.
Cut spending and cap property taxes
Sheldon Silver takes his marching orders from the teachers union. Because of this the Tax Cap will not happen
Ms. Galef recently broadcasted her Property Tax Forum she had hosted with Nassau County Executive Suozzi. During her broadcast she cut out all of the negative responses to her Circuit Breaker program which there was alot of. Many people had serious questions and criticisms.
It turned out to be an advertisement instead of a documentary on what happen at the meeting. This is a sham and charade on what really happened that evening.
Her constituents deserve better, we deserve the truth not a dog and pony show.
We deserve better and we expect more from her.
The Brennan Report a few years ago called Albany the most dysfunctional legislature in America.
What has Albany done to change that label? NOTHING. So when we have 70% of the population in New York want a Tap Cap and the Democrats and the Republicans in the State Senate want a Cap. Our Governor wants a Tax Cap. We also have the Republicans in the Assembly want a Cap. So who is the lone stumbling block. It is the Democrats in the Assembly.
Sheldon Silver and the Democrats in the Assembly should not be reelected this November. They are not listening to the people they are listening to the special interests groups.
I saw the show you have mentioned about the property tax meeting. If she did this it is so disingenuous and phony. She is not the person I thought she was.
Sandy Galef don’t blow this election.
I’m paying an 8 grand property tax for a 1000 sq ft condo in Westchester. WHY?? I don’t own any real property and I have no kids. NY is sucking the life out of people.
Ask: (and vote against) Shelly Silver, the school unions, (one and the same,) Andy Spano, your tax- and- spend liberal politicians, local and state.