Silver: Delaying Tax Refunds “Inappropriate”
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called Gov. David Paterson’s decision to delay tax refund checks “inappropriate.”
“I think it’s wrong, and I think we’re going to have some legislation that will deal with that,” he said, reports Gannett’s Jon Campbell. “I don’t know if we can stop it now, but we can certainly stop it in the future.”
Lawmakers said they would seek to push legislation that would require the state to pay people their returns within 30 days, or the state would have to pay interest.This is money that is owed to the taxpayers. This is there money, not the state’s money.
“This is money that is owed to the taxpayers. This is there money, not the state’s money,” said Sen. George Winner, R-Elmira, who is sponsoring the legislation in the Senate.
Silver, meanwhile, said Paterson is still involved in the budget talks, and the two met and discussed the budget yesterday. Both Democrats and Republicans in Senate and Assembly are expected to finish up their internal talks this week, with budget resolutions expected to hit the Assembly floor next week, he said.
And Silver continued to indicate that the governor’s proposals to tax sugary beverages, sell wine in grocery stores and increases taxes on cigarettes are unlikely to get approved.
“The likelihood is there will be no new revenues, even those proposed by the governor this year,” Silver said. “There will be significant cuts in the budget.”
Silver called Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch’s five-year fiscal plan for the state “a sound plan with laudable goals,” but said his conference hasn’t decided whether to move forward in adopting it.
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Silver the savior of the taxpayer, the Don Quixote of fiscal integrity. He might not be Italian, but he’s got the Machiavelli sauce all over his tie. Lie long enough and often enough, and it begins to sound like the truth to the gullible masses.
Oh, please! You wanted Pataki gone, you got Shpritzer. He finished Shpritizing Ashley Dupree, you got Paterson. Happy?
You didn’t like Bruno, iron-fisted boss of the Senate? You got Malcolm Smith-Pedro Espada-Hiram Monserrate-Carl Kruger. You got bupkus. Happy?
Yeah, get rid of Silver, you’ll have more NYC-style kung-fu fighting between Bronxites and Brooklyners who wanta be speaker and then NOBODY will have any idea of how to run anything. And you can cluck-cluck-cluck on the blogs about everything’s so bad.
Silver’s smart – smarter than YOU. Like it or not, he’s the only one up there who doesn;t have to buy a vowel to solve the puzzle.
You offer a very pessimistic vision of the “Empire State,” reminiscent of the movie ‘Escape From New York,’ or, even more appropriately, Silver as Charles Laughton in ‘The Island of Lost Souls.’ “NO SPILL BLOOD!”
“Big cuts” says Silver. Bet on Education as one, with more and more of the costs shifted to the homeowner. Friday they started it all off by voting that, in effect, rejections by local voters of school tax increases will be effectively overridden. The usual suspects, including Suzie Oppenheimer, dictated this obscenity, aided (incredibly) by Skelos and some Republicans. all of whom should count their days and plan to become the next best thing to a legislator, a blood- sucking lobbyist.