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Albany shouldn’t raise taxes when it’s rolling in federal dough (Editorial)
Updated Apr 11, 2021;
Posted Apr 11, 2021
Members of the New York Assembly debate budget bills during a legislative session in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. AP
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New York state took a beating from the coronavirus. The record-setting $212 billion state budget enacted last week, fattened with billions in federal relief, will go a long way to repairing the damage to education, small businesses, restaurants, the arts, renters, landlords and local governments.
A once-a-century pandemic merits a robust response. A 10% increase in spending, some of it based on one-shot revenues from the feds, is not sustainable.
Lawmakers’ new $212 billion budget “makes New York State better for all”
Schools to get record $29.5b in aid; and nursing homes, green initiatives, excluded workers to benefit, as well
New York’s wealthiest residents and companies will pay more in taxes to help their less fortunate neighbors. And the agreement could not come at a better time.
Legislators struggled to come to an agreement of $212 billion budget deal with focusing on key “people-Focused” priorities: school aid, rent relief, small business recovery and nursing home reforms. It also focuses on pandemic response and recovery.
NYS Speaker of the Assembly Carl E. Heastie and NYS Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins
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