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 [...]
