ALBANY—G. Thomas Tranter Jr., president of Corning Enterprises
and director of government affairs for Corning Incorporated, has been
named chairman of the Government Affairs Council of The Business Council
of New York State.
In that volunteer role, he will work with Business Council staff and
government affairs professionals on the Council’s GAC on a range
of policy issues
Arguing that New York’s economy has become too dependent
on taxpayer-financed jobs, a top candidate for the Republican nomination
for Governor this year told the Business Council Board of Directors
that he would make it his top priority to help New York’s
private sector create more jobs
Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General and a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor this year, us scheduled to address
leaders of New York State's local and regional chambers of commerce Wednesday,
Jan. 18, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany. Media coverage is invited
Governor Pataki sent the Legislature a 2006-07 Executive Budget that calls for $3.6 billion in tax cuts, including $786 million in business-tax reductions, while providing new funding for math and science education, and advanced research initiatives.
Most of the new tax cuts would phase in during the state fiscal years starting in 2007 and 2008
ALBANYNew York State's highest-in-the-nation Medicaid spending
now costs an average $2,165 per resident, well over twice the national
average, a new Public Policy Institute analysis shows.
The Institute analyzed Medicaid spending data for New York and the other
49 states as the latest installment in its Just The Facts series
of key economic and statistical indicators for New York
New York students make up nearly half of the 300 semifinalists
in the Intel Science Talent Search, the New York Times
has reported.
“New York had 140 of 300 semifinalists, followed by California
with 22, Texas with 18 and Maryland with 15,” the paper said
The Governor's proposal today is big news and welcome news.
When businesses invest and make a profit in New York, they create jobs.
Cutting tax rates and eliminating barriers to capital investment, as Governor
Pataki has proposed, make a powerful combination that will improve our
competitive standing dramatically
More than 40 percent of New Yorkers surveyed in a new poll say
they have considered moving out of the state, according to the results
of a new poll released by the Manhattan Institute’s Empire
Center.
Forty-one percent of those surveyed said they had considered moving
out of the state in the past year
Governor Pataki Wednesday proposed a sweeping, $1.1 billion business
tax-cut plan and a workers' comp reform proposal, both of which
will be part of the 2006-07 Executive Budget that he will release
Jan. 17.
“We've proven over and over again that tax cuts create the
financial freedom that creates new jobs and new opportunities for
New Yorkers,” Governor Pataki said
The Governor's proposal today is big news and welcome news.
New York has the nation's heaviest overall tax burden and second-highest
workers' comp costs on a costs-per-case basis, and these unacceptably
high job-creation costs keep our job-growth down and our population exodus
up