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Minnesota finally has a US Senator. Sheesh. That took long enough. Norm Colman finally called it quits yesterday after Jesus returned from heaven, sat him down, and told him there was no way in heaven or hell he could pull this one off. Previous to that, Mr. Colman knocked on the door of virtually every and any court that would let him in and they all said the same thing: “Give it up, kid”. He finally has.
Keep Putnam Beautiful is again soliciting artists to generate additional custom painted 55 gallon trash cans for use in the county. The two themes optioned are, a 1950′s automobile theme and one for Sybil Ludington, that under appreciated heroine of local fame. These will join the 34 already in existence. For more information write to Walt Thompson.
Now that Albany is about as interesting as Kent Town Board meetings used to be back in the day, property tax reform is going to have to wait for another session. While property tax reform (PTR) groups were putting all their eggs into the Omnibus basket (a collection of smaller, politically easy and weaker bills) what they found [...]
Good Friday Morning,
We had our first day of summer weather yesterday and though it’s more like we’re living in the Adirondacks than the Hudson Valley, all I can say is that I hope summer last a little longer than usual to make up for the late start.
The NY State Senate failed to take any action on property tax relief this year even though there were dozens of bills in front of them that might have offered *something*. Among them was an Omnibus bill, a collection of other bills that would have included circuit breaker legislation (similar to what Sandy Galef proposed). Even though those bills were only hesitant, politically easy baby-steps to an actual solution, the shifting of education funding from property taxes to a progressive, graduated income tax, would have been nice. The average NY property owner would have seen an actual, real, reduction in their overall property tax bills.
Regular readers will be familiar with my constant calls of support of Kevin Cahill’s “Equality in Education Act” and wonder why the solution is not ‘on the table’ in Albany. It’s easy: Sheldon Silver. Oh, and the super-rich who would actually have to start paying a [...]
Some thoughts on property tax reform In New York and taxes in general; one person’s opinion.
We in Putnam and elsewhere around New York are receiving our county and town taxes at this time and it is another bi-annual reminder to me how our taxes (and “fees”) target those least able to afford them while those most able are not asked or required to contribute a fair share by our representatives in power.
Some in the Property Tax Reform movement leadership have, for yet another year, shown themselves to be irrelevant, weak, ineffectual and gullible; quislings for the Albany status quo. They have betrayed all the NY taxpayers who will lose their homes this year, suffer hardship or be forced to sell out in a down market no less than the makers and sustainers of the inequity, our Albany servants of the rich. Some of the PTR leadership advocate caps and the Galef-Little circuit-breaker, and failed to push for…..or even mention most times…….the real reform of a switch to a state-wide income based system, like the Cahill/LaValle bills.
They asked us to thank and support the purveyors of phony reform, like Tom Suozzi and his stacked [...]
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