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
RE: Say it ain't so! We don't want to raise business taxes and turn New York into New Jersey North.
Last summer, New Jersey did something great—for New York!
The Governor and Legislature in our neighboring state tried to deal with their budget problems by enacting a huge increase in their corporate taxes
New
York State cannot return to a past in which high taxes turned
the state into the nation's "greatest exporter of jobs," Senate
Majority Leader Joseph Bruno told small business proprietors
March 26 at The Business Council's annual Small Business Day
in Albany
ALBANYBusinesses pay more than a third of all tax revenues collected
by the state and local governments in New York, a new report by The Public
Policy Institute shows.
Public-employee unions and union-supported advocates who argue that business
in New York does not pay its fair share of taxes are either misunderstanding
or deliberately misrepresenting how businesses are taxed, the report adds
The
Business Council will strongly oppose a proposal by the state
Consumer Protection Board (CPB) to dramatically increase the
fee it will charge many businesses to access the state's do-not-call
registry.
Businesses
that wish to telemarket in New York State now must pay $800
to get the registry, which telemarketers are required by law
to have
ALBANYBusloads of protesters, fear-mongering ads, and daily press conferences
by tax-and-spend groups may raise a clamor for higher spending and taxes,
but they are not "the real voice of New York," Business Council President
Daniel B. Walsh has told state lawmakers.
Spring in Albany is heralded by charter buses "filled with protectors organized
by one taxpayer-financed entity after another, all bent on convincing the
Legislature that you simply must not and cannot cut the New York State budget,"
Walsh wrote in a March 14 letter