New Yorkers
continued to move away from home, and the state continued to lose population
relative to the rest of the nation, from July 1998 to July 1999, new data
from the U.S. Census Bureau show.
Domestic migration
out of the state-net of residents who moved here from other states-totaled
nearly 168,000, far more than in any other state
Governor Pataki and the Legislature have agreed to a major expansion of health-care entitlements, while preserving most of the state's unique
subsidies for the hospital industry.
The so-called Health Care Reform Act 2000 was adopted in quick special sessions of the
Assembly and Senate last month
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