The
Judiciary Committee of the state Senate has quietly approved
and moved to the Senate floor a controversial trial lawyer-backed
bill that would dramatically expand potential awards in lawsuits
involving wrongful death
Legislative
leaders have agreed to spend $1.9 billion more in 2003-2004
than Governor Pataki has proposed. They have not specified
how they would pay for it, but a number of tax-increase proposals
are reported under consideration
ALBANYNew York's business community, and its small businesses in particular,
are increasingly unable to cope with health insurance costs that are skyrocketing
in part of state policies set in Albany, Business Council President Daniel
B. Walsh told state Legislators in testimony today
New
York has the second largest budget deficit in the country
but is not considering significant spending cuts to meet its
challenge, a new analysis shows.
In
contrast, of the states with the 10 largest deficits, seven
are considering or have enacted major spending cuts, according
to the study, which is a joint effort of the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Manhattan Institute
Even
after high-profile rallies and marches in Albany and countless
print and TV ads, tax-and-spend advocates have acknowledged
the effectiveness of The Business Council's "electronic protest"
against higher taxes by mounting a similar campaign in favor
of higher taxes and more government spending
ALBANYA proposed replacement cement plant in Columbia County would
bring important economic and environmental benefits to the region and should
be approved by the state, Business Council President Daniel B. Walsh has told
Governor Pataki.
"We support this project because it represents the type of reinvestment in
manufacturing that New York should welcome and encourage," Walsh said in a
March 19 letter to Governor Pataki
A
coalition of New York health-care providers has filed suit
in federal court urging the court to overturn the state's
so-called labor neutrality law.
The
health-care coalition argued that the law, which it dubbed
"the Employer Gag Law," should be overturned on two grounds:
It violates employers' free speech rights under the First
Amendment to the U
Tax
increases being aggressively promoted by unions would undermine
New York's business climate and threaten the foundations of
the state's free-market economy, a key New York State political
leader has warned state lawmakers
The
'New Jersey Plan' of tax increases that public-employee unions
and other advocates are promoting as "closing corporate loopholes"
is, in fact, "a virtual copy of the disaster that New Jersey
inflicted on itself last summer," a new report on New York's
state budget debate concludes
ALBANYNew
Jersey's decision to raise corporate taxes last year had great economic effect-for
New York. That's why New York's state lawmakers must reject the union-driven
"New Jersey Plan" to raise state taxes, Business Council President Daniel
B. Walsh has warned state lawmakers