Andrew Cuomo

[41chevy]

So explain how the tax rate has any bearing on the start of the thread.

My farm is in the N.Y. metro Area (NYC, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties) my taxes on the farm per NYS wasn't based on farimng it is based on the valuation of the property in my area. I used to pay the same tax rate as is I had a 2.5 million dollar house on every 5 acres. NY laws for the sale of agricultural property in the NYMA area limited my ability to sell it with out me giving the state 49% of the acreage for their open spaces land bank at the states set land costs which Andrew based on mid state values. BUT because of Andrew we put in 150 grape vines which classes it as a winery and poof zero taxes for 10 years,  65% subsidized water and electrical  billing.  Now thanks to Andrew if I add a family member to the "winery" my zero taxes and benefits start all over again. I can avoid taxes indefinably. If I want to sell it as a winery or as a housing development the land issues do not apply to a winery.

 

KS likes him because of his media presence, a few like him because of his political party. None of which has lived with his mid night "emergency" sessions with select people to pass legislation, his support of abortions up the 24 hours after birth, illegals getting protection from ICE and "questionable" policies like forgoing the normal process for awarding contract for power distribution "because it is a dire emergency" so he chose the company he owned 30% of stock in. His releasing prisoners in 2019 before the Covid 19 virus.  His list of crimes that are only issued court appearance tickets include violent cases, including robbery and assault (if a gun is used but not fired it is non violent),  child porn, vehicular homicide, domestic violence, and hate crimes not involving a weapon. one man was released 62 times  for robbing subway riders. . .he even thanked Cuomo for helping him support his habit.

As for moving the sick up state Maxidyne, no you can not let them die but you also can't over load a small rural hospital. But that goes along the putting the homeless on trains and buses and dropping them in other states. NYC for one ships them to Eastern L.I., Newark and Cape May.

I guess the media presence and party affiliation is more important than  dirty politics and hints of corruption.

[tjc transport]

18 hours ago, Maxidyne said:

Here's your stats for NY- NYC metro has 62% of the states population and pays 82% of the income taxes!

if nu yawk city pays produces 82% if it's income taxes, than why do they not have any money 

Edited April 16, 2020 by tjc transport

[41chevy]

 

In Cuomos defense he did lower the deficit by  cutting staff,school aid and services to the poor and middle class. Also NYC is more than 60% of the deficit run up under DiBlassio's administration.. The out come of the 2020-2021 budget is an across the board 8,5% income tax, a 25% increase in licensing fees by DMV, a 19.5 cent per gallon gas tax, 3% tax on heating oil, a .7% increase in state sales tax and last an increase of bridge and highway tolls, the toll increase TBA.

 

From Bloomberg News 12-13-2019

New York State's Budget Deficit Is Growing

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may be spending much of the new year explaining how he was caught off-guard by a $6.1 billion hole looming in his next state budget, caused mostly by rising Medicaid costs.It’s the largest gap since Cuomo took office. Amid New York’s recovery from recession, he closed a $10 billion gap for the 2011-2012 fiscal year with cuts to health care, education and personnel. This shortfall, disclosed in a report last month, occurred during a strong economy as revenue increased. Critics say the third-term Democratic governor should have known better.

Now, as Cuomo prepares to propose a 2020-2021 budget in January, lawmakers and interest-group advocates are already quarreling over whether to impose more taxes on the rich or cut services to the poor and middle class. If current spending trends continue, the state would face an $8.5 billion deficit in 2023, of which about $3.9 billion would be for Medicaid. Cuomo’s budget office says it’s looking for savings.

“While Medicaid spending is projected to grow at almost 6% a year nationally, we are developing a plan to be introduced in January that will once again limit New York State’s Medicaid spending growth and continue high quality care without raising taxes to cover the cost,” said Freeman Klopott, the state budget office spokesman

According to Moody’s Investors Service, New York’s Medicaid burden is set to increase 6.6% a year through 2023, after five years in which Cuomo-ordered changes reduced annual growth to 2.2%. This year’s increases result from the advent of a $15-an-hour minimum-wage for health-care workers, a 12% increase in long-term care enrollment and reduced federal aid. Describing the situation as “a credit negative,” Moody’s continued to rate the state’s credit as Aa1 stable.

 

Medicaid Warnings

The governor should have anticipated these increased obligations, said Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-supported fiscal watchdog group. Rein is skeptical that Cuomo can fill the gap without deeper across-the-budget cuts, which would require legislative approval.

The CBC warned Cuomo earlier this year that Medicaid costs could spike and couldn’t be permanently papered over by the governor’s recent practice of delaying billion-dollar payments into the next fiscal year. Cost controls instituted by the governor eight years ago have failed to stem recent expense increases, Rein said.

“The state’s plan to address the Medicaid-driven budget gap is one part gimmick and one part delay,” he said. “A plan to solve the budget problem need not be done entirely within the Medicaid program. Other portions of the budget also should be considered, including mistargeted aid to wealthy school districts and unproductive economic development programs.”

Responding to the criticism, Klopott noted Cuomo’s record of cutting Medicaid costs. In 2011, when they were rising more than 13%, he created a Medicaid Redesign Team that capped annual spending growth based on a formula tied to the national medical cost of living. “New York State has kept Medicaid spending growth to less than half the national average – saving taxpayers over $19 billion,” Klopott said, “and this has been key to limiting overall state spending growth.”

Tax Tussle

In the state legislature, Democratic leaders are at odds over new taxes. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is against them. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is for them. Heastie said he won’t accept cuts in services to the state’s six million New Yorkers enrolled in Medicaid who represent about a third of the state population. “We always believe in raising revenue,” he said earlier this month.

The battle may be joined over a revived proposal for a “pied-a-terre” tax on second-home purchases of $5 million or more. The measure, which real estate groups say will hurt an already-weak luxury housing market, would raise about $650 million, said state Senator Brad Hoylman, its chief sponsor, who first proposed it in 2014.

“They use our system of laws to protect their international investment in real estate, and I think there should be a premium on that,” said Hoylman. “This is a way to capture that purchasing power and use it for some common good.”

Spending cuts may also collide with demands for more school aid. Education advocates and teacher-union leaders say the state has failed to comply with a 2006 court order to fully fund its public schools, an obligation that may exceed $3.4 billion. Advocates say the amount owed -- based upon census data -- may be more due to rising school enrollments of homeless children whose households may not have been counted.

The homelessness problem has also created demands for more state spending in the form of rent subsidies to prevent evictions and as an alternative to shelters, said New York City Councilman Stephen Levin. He’s calling for the state legislature to spend millions of dollars to pay most of the cost of such subsidies. Tenant advocates also have demanded that Democratic lawmakers spend more on affordable housing.

“Albany needs to make the billionaires pay by a tax surcharge on the super-rich,” said Michael McKee, treasurer and spokesman for the statewide Tenants Political Action Committee. They are calling for repeal of tax incentives for developers that subsidize market-rate housing, programs he says cost the state about $4 billion.

New Yorkers won’t know until next month how Cuomo intends to address the gap opened by the failure to anticipate rising Medicaid costs. And the state can’t necessarily count on growth in tax receipts.

“A solution is not yet in sight,” Moody’s said in their Dec. 3 comment, warning that budget officials will find it “considerably more difficult for the state to tackle recurring operating deficits, especially if there is any pause in state revenue growth.”

[Mack Technician]

After doing a little homework it’s clear Cuomo couldn’t manage a KFC without going 6% over budget. Appears He’s fishing for a bailout and “unrestricted” money so Covid can become his Medicare over budget fixer-uper. 

[Ditchdiggerjcf]

On 4/16/2020 at 6:14 PM, 41chevy said:

 

In Cuomos defense he did lower the deficit by  cutting staff,school aid and services to the poor and middle class. Also NYC is more than 60% of the deficit run up under DiBlassio's administration.. The out come of the 2020-2021 budget is an across the board 8,5% income tax, a 25% increase in licensing fees by DMV, a 19.5 cent per gallon gas tax, 3% tax on heating oil, a .7% increase in state sales tax and last an increase of bridge and highway tolls, the toll increase TBA.

 

From Bloomberg News 12-13-2019

New York State's Budget Deficit Is Growing

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may be spending much of the new year explaining how he was caught off-guard by a $6.1 billion hole looming in his next state budget, caused mostly by rising Medicaid costs.It’s the largest gap since Cuomo took office. Amid New York’s recovery from recession, he closed a $10 billion gap for the 2011-2012 fiscal year with cuts to health care, education and personnel. This shortfall, disclosed in a report last month, occurred during a strong economy as revenue increased. Critics say the third-term Democratic governor should have known better.

Now, as Cuomo prepares to propose a 2020-2021 budget in January, lawmakers and interest-group advocates are already quarreling over whether to impose more taxes on the rich or cut services to the poor and middle class. If current spending trends continue, the state would face an $8.5 billion deficit in 2023, of which about $3.9 billion would be for Medicaid. Cuomo’s budget office says it’s looking for savings.

“While Medicaid spending is projected to grow at almost 6% a year nationally, we are developing a plan to be introduced in January that will once again limit New York State’s Medicaid spending growth and continue high quality care without raising taxes to cover the cost,” said Freeman Klopott, the state budget office spokesman

According to Moody’s Investors Service, New York’s Medicaid burden is set to increase 6.6% a year through 2023, after five years in which Cuomo-ordered changes reduced annual growth to 2.2%. This year’s increases result from the advent of a $15-an-hour minimum-wage for health-care workers, a 12% increase in long-term care enrollment and reduced federal aid. Describing the situation as “a credit negative,” Moody’s continued to rate the state’s credit as Aa1 stable.

 

Medicaid Warnings

The governor should have anticipated these increased obligations, said Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-supported fiscal watchdog group. Rein is skeptical that Cuomo can fill the gap without deeper across-the-budget cuts, which would require legislative approval.

The CBC warned Cuomo earlier this year that Medicaid costs could spike and couldn’t be permanently papered over by the governor’s recent practice of delaying billion-dollar payments into the next fiscal year. Cost controls instituted by the governor eight years ago have failed to stem recent expense increases, Rein said.

“The state’s plan to address the Medicaid-driven budget gap is one part gimmick and one part delay,” he said. “A plan to solve the budget problem need not be done entirely within the Medicaid program. Other portions of the budget also should be considered, including mistargeted aid to wealthy school districts and unproductive economic development programs.”

Responding to the criticism, Klopott noted Cuomo’s record of cutting Medicaid costs. In 2011, when they were rising more than 13%, he created a Medicaid Redesign Team that capped annual spending growth based on a formula tied to the national medical cost of living. “New York State has kept Medicaid spending growth to less than half the national average – saving taxpayers over $19 billion,” Klopott said, “and this has been key to limiting overall state spending growth.”

Tax Tussle

In the state legislature, Democratic leaders are at odds over new taxes. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is against them. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is for them. Heastie said he won’t accept cuts in services to the state’s six million New Yorkers enrolled in Medicaid who represent about a third of the state population. “We always believe in raising revenue,” he said earlier this month.

The battle may be joined over a revived proposal for a “pied-a-terre” tax on second-home purchases of $5 million or more. The measure, which real estate groups say will hurt an already-weak luxury housing market, would raise about $650 million, said state Senator Brad Hoylman, its chief sponsor, who first proposed it in 2014.

“They use our system of laws to protect their international investment in real estate, and I think there should be a premium on that,” said Hoylman. “This is a way to capture that purchasing power and use it for some common good.”

Spending cuts may also collide with demands for more school aid. Education advocates and teacher-union leaders say the state has failed to comply with a 2006 court order to fully fund its public schools, an obligation that may exceed $3.4 billion. Advocates say the amount owed -- based upon census data -- may be more due to rising school enrollments of homeless children whose households may not have been counted.

The homelessness problem has also created demands for more state spending in the form of rent subsidies to prevent evictions and as an alternative to shelters, said New York City Councilman Stephen Levin. He’s calling for the state legislature to spend millions of dollars to pay most of the cost of such subsidies. Tenant advocates also have demanded that Democratic lawmakers spend more on affordable housing.

“Albany needs to make the billionaires pay by a tax surcharge on the super-rich,” said Michael McKee, treasurer and spokesman for the statewide Tenants Political Action Committee. They are calling for repeal of tax incentives for developers that subsidize market-rate housing, programs he says cost the state about $4 billion.

New Yorkers won’t know until next month how Cuomo intends to address the gap opened by the failure to anticipate rising Medicaid costs. And the state can’t necessarily count on growth in tax receipts.

“A solution is not yet in sight,” Moody’s said in their Dec. 3 comment, warning that budget officials will find it “considerably more difficult for the state to tackle recurring operating deficits, especially if there is any pause in state revenue growth.”

Prepare thy anus new yorkers.

 

BOHICA

[GreenGiant2]

Only dry. No lube

[kscarbel2]

 

[mackey58]

[Ditchdiggerjcf]

Take a handful and let us know how it turns out.

[41chevy]

My son and his snowflake princess both of whom hate Trump with a passion, criticize 100% of everything he has done stopped over to show off their $2400 sound system upgrade they bought with their checks for their Jeep. Seemed very up set when I mentioned how Trump bought them for $1200 each. Told them if they hate all things Trump they would have given the checks to Andrew for his campaign instead of selling out. Changed  the pass code on the gate and perimeter alarms so they can no longer honor me with their aura of shit.

[TS7]

Trump's idea for disinfecting from the inside is already being done, what is chemotherapy? Good thing Trump is trying to do something and on the job everyday. Unlike a whole lot of fool Democrat's with there abusive lockdowns and foolish rules in some states.

[RowdyRebel]

https://nypost.com/2020/04/23/nursing-homes-cant-reject-coronavirus-patients-cuomo-says/

 

So this virus kicks the crap out of the elderly, and spreads like wildfire in nursing homes...and yet Coumo forced nursing homes to take in people hospitalized with (or suspected to have) this virus...and also refused to provide the staff at these nursing homes with proper PPE...and then massive numbers of patients & staff at these nursing homes contract the virus and many die...

...but it's all Trump's fault, right?

 

Cuomo isn't qualified to shine Trump's shoes...and yet there are people who want him to be president? Biden on his worst day would be better than Cuomo on his best...and Biden's "plan" was nothing more than a re-hashing of what Trump had already done...which of course Biden and other dems criticized every step of the way in real time as it was happening...only to include it all when he made his big announcement of "what I would do"...

https://pjmedia.com/trending/joe-biden-blasts-trumps-coronavirus-response-then-plagiarizes-trumps-plan/

https://pjmedia.com/trending/joe-biden-plagiarizes-trumps-coronavirus-response-again/

 

The democrat party is a joke.

[mackey58]

All the parties are a joke put there to make us thing we have a voice when the US is owned by the big money corporation's 

[Mack Technician]

Your probably right to a large degree, so here’s the solution....

I joined a Fortune 500 “big money” corporation and every week buy company stock with my pre-tax earning. Now I’m a shareholder and I can vote for the board of directors who, in turn, are running our country. It’s the closest I could get to a vote that counts and I actually get to vote twice.

Vote #1. I get to pick the Master(Corp, lobbyists,etc)

Vote #2. I get to pick the puppets(politicians)

The stinker is getting stuck paying an annual $1,500 legal representation fee to the Union to make sure my monster doesn’t eat me.

Capitalism at work! 

Edited April 27, 2020 by Mack Technician

[TS7]

Do not forget to add that the Democrat party is also owned by big money unions.