Governor Pataki's proposed "21st Century Upstate Economic Agenda" urges repeal
of the state's Gross Receipts Tax on energy.
Additional elements of his economic growth incentive include:
Additional energy tax changes
Taxation of all energy companies based on net income.
Repeal of the current utility franchise tax based on gross receipts and dividends
State auditors
found inaccuracies in public school attendance records across the state,
raising questions about state aid allocation and educational performance,
state Comptroller H. Carl McCall has reported.
The state Education
Department and the New York City Board of Education "have to crack down
on inaccurate and false reporting," the Comptroller said in releasing audits
of schools in the city and in six districts elsewhere in the state
Oppositon from The Business Council helped defeat a bill that would have
weakened a key employer-friendly provision of the unemployment insurance
(UI) reform of 1998.
Governor Pataki vetoed the bill late last month. The Council had urged
a veto in a Dec. 22 letter to the Pataki administration
Governor Pataki today called for renewed efforts to cut taxes and stimulate growth in jobs, with a special emphasis on the needs of the Upstate economy.
In his State of the State message opening the annual session of the Legislature, the Governor said New York has made major strides in improving its economy
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Reduce AMT from currently scheduled 3% to 2.5% as of July 2000.
Reduce AMT from currently scheduled 3% to 2.5% as of July 2000
By Governor George E. Pataki
Cutting taxes has been key to New York's economic recovery. But cutting taxes is more than just an issue of economics. For us, cutting taxes is a matter of fulfilling government's fundamental obligation to the people.
It all comes down to one simple question: whose money is it anyway? The people's hard-fought earnings belong to the PEOPLE and not the government
To: The New York State Senate
From: Daniel B. Walsh, President and CEO
Re: Our concerns about new mandates and new entitlements
I am writing to recommend that the Senate reject the health-care bill before you, at least until the Legislature and the public have had time to analyze fully the long-range cost implications of this bill, and to consider alternative ways of expanding health-care coverage
ALBANY—In 1966, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller proposed, and the
Legislature adopted, a health care program the Governor said would be
“the most comprehensive program of its kind in the nation.”
But the cost quickly escalated beyond even the wildest fears of its few
opponents