Feld Offers Property-Tax-Relief Plan
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- October
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Republican Senate candidate Liz Feld proposed a way to lower property taxes for New Yorkers, in particular those in Westchester.
Feld, as most candidates across the state, have made property taxes the top issue of the campaign against Democratic Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, who was on vacation in Alaska and missed a vote in August on a property-tax cap.
Still, a Siena College poll showed Oppenheimer with a 61 percent to 24 percent lead over Feld.
Here’s Feld’s plan:
—Enact a 4 percent cap on local taxes.
—Change state school-aid formulas that “shortchange Westchester taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars each year.”
—Enact legislation to temporarily freeze property taxes for low-income senior citizens;
—Enact mandate reform to relieve local governments from unfunded state mandates;
—Freeze all non-essential state hiring
—Reduce the Executive and Legislative budgets by at least 5 percent.
—Enact additional 5% across-the-board cuts to state agencies;
—Aggressively pursue Medicaid and other fraud, and eliminate public authorities that “no longer serve the public interest.”
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When Liz Feld was campaigning for Mayor said she was going to lower taxes in Larchmont. She got the job and what happened? Taxes in Larchmont have gone WAY UP! Don’t believe a word that comes out of her mouth
Maybe so, but if she follows through on this list, it sure beats the alternative, which is a proven given and unacceptable.
Just warmed over hash. Nothing new in this.
Smartporpoise – as a Republican, you’ll buy bwhatever she says, and you’ll cynically zap anything any Democrat says.
I’m fed up with Republicans, from GW Bush to Pataki. I know that sits badly with most of the bloggers on this blog. Too bad. You’ve had it YOUR WAY for a long time. Time for the Democrats to get a chance.
Democrats never met a tax they didn’t fall in love with.
The bottom line is that the state controls the property taxes. A mayor cannot just use a pen to reduce the. It needs to be done in Albany and Liz Feld will do just that. There really needs to be a pre-screener on this blog where only people with some intellegence can blog. When you have people that have their own agenda (and that is to smear someone) its tough.
Who cares? Feld is a liberal Republican who, like all RINOs, will get creamed by a real deal liberal Democrat.
The Feld-Oppenheimer race is really quite simple. Here you have a classic case of an aging veteran and young promising prospect. Kind of like what you get in sports. Sen. Oppenheimer has been a veteran of the state senate for 24 years, so she has some miles on her tires. Over the last few years though Suzi has not been servicing her constitutents like she should. In other words she has lost a step of two. Mayor Feld is the young prospect in this case. She has everything a voter could ask for. She has the energy, and she has an impressive resume. The bottom line here is that Sen. Oppenheimer has to go, it is just time. She was a “bright light” of the senate in her younger days but over time she has become that “washed up” veteran that just can’t perform to the level her constitutents (team) demands. Westchester needs to go in a new direction, we need to go with someone who win, lose, or draw will at least go up to Albany and have the energy, and enthusiam that is required for this job. Things have gotten out of control under Suzi’s watch, one of the reasons is because she hasn’t had the energy to stop the bleeding. In November elect Liz Feld for the State Senate, we will then have the energy needed for Westchester’s demands and let Suzi ride off into the sunset with a 24 year career. We can usher in what Barack Obama likes to call “change”, lets all thank Suzi for her service to her community and let “change” occur in Albany not just Washington.
This is just more of the same. Liz is just cherrypicking from other candidates who have been out front saying that the tax cap is inadequate and inappropriate to alleviate the economic pain of higher taxes. Her record in Larchmont is not impressive. She is better than that Johnny One-Note, Rob Biagi however who is intolerable. He should stick to the South End of NewRo with his neo-con neanderthal buddies.
Most of these points are already in legislation in the Assembly which is already being killed.
All I am saying is let someone go up to Albany who will fight for us, not someone who is retired on the job. As I said win,lose,or draw she will fight and at least try and help us unlike Suzi has done for the last 15 years. Suzi has served the 37th district long enough. Let us have someone who has the energy to deal with the gridlock that is Albany and let Suzi go play with her grandchildren.
I can agree with that. I wish feld had adopted a lower cap though. 2.5% would be nice. 4% is basically the same cap thats already there. It’s a start but not enough. Also opening Westchester up for more state funding doesn’t really address the state wide problem.