{"id":145361,"date":"2021-01-01T01:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/albanys-planning-more-pain-for-new-york-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T01:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:15:40","slug":"albanys-planning-more-pain-for-new-york-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/albanys-planning-more-pain-for-new-york-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#Albany\u2019s planning more pain for New York in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Albany\u2019s planning more pain for New York in 2021<\/strong>”
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Fasten your seatbelts for the new year, New York: With Democrats now boasting veto-proof supermajorities in both the Assembly and the state Senate, and several Democratic Social<\/a>ists joining the ranks, the left is emboldened \u2014 and that spells big trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognize the mandate we\u2019ve been given by voters,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins warned in November. \u201cWe will assert ourselves accordingly.\u201d <\/p>\n

Yikes!<\/p>\n

New York lawmakers, even the \u201cmoderates,\u201d aren\u2019t known for their, uh, caution. In 2019, they rushed through a bail \u201creform\u201d so dangerously flawed that they felt obliged to fix it the very next year \u2014 and botched the redo, too. The whole state is now paying the price in the form of surging violent crime.<\/p>\n

This coming legislative session, which kicks off Wednesday, they\u2019ve got even bigger plans \u2014 starting with a hike in taxes supposedly targeting the rich.<\/p>\n

Progressives feel no need to justify tax hikes, of course: Their enduring goal is to redistribute wealth, even if it makes everyone equally poor. (Recall Mayor de Blasio\u2019s assurance that the city has \u201cplenty of money\u201d but that it\u2019s simply \u201cin the wrong hands\u201d?)<\/p>\n

Yet they\u2019ll use the pandemic as their excuse nonetheless. The state\u2019s economy, which Gov. Cuomo and de Blasio locked down, is failing to spit off enough tax revenue to fund the state\u2019s spending plans, they\u2019ll argue, so taxes must rise to fill the gap.<\/p>\n

In truth, revenue hasn\u2019t fallen as much as expected, and Washington has directed more than $160 billion in pandemic aid, in one form or another, toward the state in any case. Besides, millions of New Yorkers in the private sector have tightened their belts; there\u2019s no reason state government can\u2019t do likewise instead of slamming the private sector even more.<\/p>\n

Yet instead, some lawmakers mean to boost <\/em>spending \u2014 on schools, \u201cenvironmental justice,\u201d to expand broadband, for an undocumented-immigrants fund. They also think this is the year for single-payer health care in New York \u2014 an idea so unaffordably expensive that every state that has considered it has had to pull the plug.<\/p>\n

Nor will they stop with taxing just the rich: Indeed, they\u2019re eyeing a range of other new levies and fees, too \u2014 on methane emissions, carbon use, telecom companies and more. Rest assured, those new costs will hit low-, middle- and high-income workers, either directly or via higher prices from companies obliged to cover their new hit.<\/p>\n

With the economy struggling to recover post-COVID and people fleeing the state, it\u2019s hard to think of anything more self-defeating than tax hikes. As Cuomo himself has noted, attempts to milk the rich will just encourage more of them to skedaddle and take their tax dollars with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you take people who are highly mobile, and you tax them, well, then they\u2019ll just move,\u201d he warned in July.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s good evidence for that: New York is already one of the highest-taxing states in the nation, and its population has been dwindling for decades \u2014 with many New Yorkers heading to lower-tax states, like Florida and Texas.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Cuomo has hinted that he\u2019ll back a tax hike anyway this year, unless Washington funnels even more cash to the state, which is highly unlikely.<\/p>\n

Nor do Democrats app<\/a>ear interested in helping get Gotham\u2019s crime spike in check. Instead, the zealots have another \u201cjustice roadmap\u201d to make even more inmates eligible for parole and keep younger criminals out of prison. Not enough offenders roaming the streets already, you see . . .<\/p>\n

The left also hopes to make it harder for part-time and temporary gig workers to find or keep jobs, by requiring that they be treated as employees, subject to minimum-wage laws and worker protections and eligible for company benefits. It\u2019s guaranteed to mean fewer gig opportunities \u2014 and fewer jobs, period.<\/p>\n

What a time to indulge a far-left wish list. If lawmakers cared about their constituents, they\u2019d be laser-focused on reviving the economy and getting businesses and residents to stay, post-COVID \u2014 not killing more jobs and hurting businesses.<\/p>\n

November\u2019s jobless rate throughout the state stood at 8.4 percent, more than a point and a half above the national rate. In New York City, the state\u2019s economic engine, it was 12.1 percent. Do they really want to make it even higher?<\/p>\n

Albany ought to be moving mountains to help businesses recover and the unemployed find jobs \u2014 by easing regulations, lowering taxes and fees, postponing hikes in the minimum wage. The city especially needs help with both its economy and crime.<\/p>\n

Offering such assistance isn\u2019t politically impossible, despite the emboldened radicals on the left: Cuomo clearly knows what will help, and hurt, New York and surely doesn\u2019t want to preside over an irreversible downward spiral. He wields enormous power through the budget process, under the state Constitution \u2014 and it will take only a few moderate Democrats to join Republicans in the Legislature against a destructive leftist stampede to uphold Cuomo vetoes and block major damage. <\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s a tall ask. But New York\u2019s future rides on stopping the loony left.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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