

Better investments for $350 'rebate'

6:25 PM, Apr. 9, 2013  |  Comments
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Re "$350 check: a bribe for the gullible," March 28 column:

I thought our state legislators were interested in the welfare of New Yorkers, and getting re-elected. I guess I am wrong. How can I possibly vote for men and women who think $350,000 is "middle-class income"? It certainly isn't to us "middle-class folks" who make $50,000 a year. They are eligible for a $350 rebate if they have a child? Does it take that much money to raise a child yearly? We have so many "real" middle- and low-income people who, if they received a $350 rebate, would put that money to good use.

It is not the $350,000-income people leaving the state because they can't afford to live here. It is the senior citizens who have contributed to the state for many years and cannot afford to stay because the cost of living eats up their savings; it is the lower-income people who can't afford the rents, sales taxes and property taxes. They are leaving New York - 9 percent last year alone.

We can take millions and give a rebate to people who don't need it, yet we are cutting in critical areas such as aid to developmentally disabled. We can spend millions on a bridge (which we do need). Instead of giving rebates to those who don't need more income, why not spend those millions on mass transit for the bridge?

Marilyn Nielsen


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