{"id":158917,"date":"2021-01-20T02:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomos-budget-rant-was-the-opposite-of-leadership\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T02:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:44:05","slug":"cuomos-budget-rant-was-the-opposite-of-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomos-budget-rant-was-the-opposite-of-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo\u2019s \u2018budget\u2019 rant was the opposite of \u2018leadership\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo\u2019s \u2018budget\u2019 rant was the opposite of \u2018leadership\u2019<\/strong>”
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo was supposed to lay out his budget for the coming fiscal year Tuesday, but instead he just ranted about Washington, demanded it hand over $15 billion and threatened pain \u2014 and a lawsuit \u2014 if it doesn\u2019t. This, from the guy who just wrote a book on leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Washington doesn\u2019t provide New York state with our $15 billion fair share, we will pursue litigation,\u201d he huffed. If the feds send \u201conly\u201d $6 billion, he says he\u2019ll slash funding for schools, health care and municipalities \u2014 and hike taxes on both <\/em>the wealthy and the middle class, putting the top income-tax rate at nearly 15 percent, the nation\u2019s highest. Oh, he\u2019ll borrow more, too.<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s tirade was the exact opposite of leadership: a monumental exercise in buck-passing. He even blamed Team Trump for the virus: \u201cThe COVID assault was caused by federal negligence,\u201d he insisted, as if the entire world hasn\u2019t faced an unstoppable pandemic.<\/p>\n

COVID has fundamentally changed New York\u2019s long-term economic and fiscal picture, yet Cuomo wants Uncle Sam to hold the state harmless, as if nothing happ<\/a>ened. Indeed, with \u201conly\u201d $6 billion in new federal money, state-funded spending would still grow, by 1.2 percent, under his $193 billion budget.<\/p>\n

As Empire Center fiscal expert E.J. McMahon notes<\/a>, getting $15 billion from DC would be \u201cjust a Band-Aid\u201d: It\u2019d let the state put off facing its long-term problems as they grow worse.<\/p>\n

Even Cuomo\u2019s right-hand man, Budget Director Robert Mujica, couldn\u2019t make the gov\u2019s lawsuit threat stand up. He first said (preposterously) that it would be based on the fact that the feds should\u2019ve known the coronavirus would come to New York, but then later said it would be over Congress\u2019 2017 cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local levies \u2014 though New York has already <\/em>sued over that. And lost.<\/p>\n

Cuomo knows tax hikes would hamper the post-COVID economic recovery and spur more wealthy taxpayers to flee. But he shies from the hard work of reining in spending by, say, bringing per-student school outlays more in line with the rest of America, scrapping wasteful \u201ceconomic-development\u201d slush funds and cutting back on overly ambitious public construction projects. <\/p>\n

Apparently, \u201cleadership\u201d is about whining, not facing facts..\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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