{"id":6436,"date":"2008-12-23T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:56:28","slug":"the-cuomo-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6436","title":{"rendered":"The Cuomo model [Jonn]"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about this before, but with a Washington Times<\/a> article this morning about states raising taxes, i thought I’d tell it again. The Times article begins with New York’s David Paterson’s plan to inflict 137 new taxes on working New Yorkers;<\/p>\n

One of the most sweeping revenue packages comes out of New York, where Democratic Gov. David A. Paterson wants to raise $4 billion with 137 new or increased taxes and fees in the budget, including an 18 percent so-called “anti-obesity tax” on non-diet soft drinks. Satellite TV, cigars and professional licensing fees also are targets.<\/p>\n

“Middle-income families do not get wage increases during a recession, but neither should the states. Families have to cut back, and so should state government. They should cut spending,” said Chris Edwards, who tracks state budgets at the libertarian Cato Institute. “These states should have been retrenching after budget increases of 7 percent over the last two years, but they repeated the same mistakes they made in the late ’90s, assuming the good times were going to last forever.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New York State missed out on the 90s boom. Mario Cuomo became governor in New York State in 1983. The first thing he did was waive the residency restriction for welfare eligibility from six months to zero. Hordes of potential welfare recipients left the south and swarmed into New York.<\/p>\n

Soon, Cuomo realized that current revenues wouldn’t support such an influx of out-of-staters, so he raised taxes on businesses. Business reacted as businesses will…they left the State along with thier jobs. More New Yorkers joined the welfare rolls, Cuomo raised taxes again. Businesses that had been the foundation of Upstate New York’s economy for decades like General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Nestle’s, Miller Brewers packed up and left. And Cuomo kept raising taxes to make up for revenue shortfalls. It became a vicious cycle of enforced poverty.<\/p>\n

Now, Upstate New York’s landscape is dotted with closed factories and crumbling, neglected buildings.\u00a0 The states haven’t learned that you can’t get blood from a stone. I don’t know how Paterson thinks he can squeeze Upstate New Yorkers any more than he already has.<\/p>\n

Every Virginia governor of the last ten years has run on the promise to eliminate their car tax, yet none has. Maryland’s governor O’Malley, on the day he ramrodded a $1.4 billion tax increase through the legislature, added 100,000 people to the State’s healthcare rolls.<\/p>\n

When more Americans are losing their jobs, when businesses are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, why can’t government break free of it’s old habits and actually do something for the economy rather than selfishly taking all they can before it all dries up? For a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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