Fiscal measures move swiftly through Senate














Here’s the GOP’s press release on the measures:





































  1. Amy Gerace says:

    I find it extrememly hypocritical that the senate would prioritize job creation and hiring incentives on the same day they are due to lay off hundreds of senate staffers! I find it even more preposterous that Republicans are busy hiring new staff while Democrats are laying theirs off due to a lack of funding. If job creation is such an important matter to all senators, then shouldn’t the Republicans be hiring the same competant people that are being laid off by Democrats? PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH, SENATORS!!!

  2. Dave says:

    01/19/11 S1892 Senate Vote Aye: 41 Nay: 19
    Nay Adams Aye Addabbo Aye Alesi Aye Avella
    Aye Ball Aye Bonacic Aye Breslin Aye Carlucci
    Aye DeFrancisco Nay Diaz Aye Dilan Exc Duane
    Nay Espaillat Aye Farley Aye Flanagan Aye Fuschillo
    Aye Gallivan Nay Gianaris Aye Golden Aye Griffo
    Aye Grisanti Aye Hannon Nay Hassell-Thompson Nay Huntley
    Aye Johnson Aye Kennedy Aye Klein Nay Krueger
    Nay Kruger Aye Lanza Aye Larkin Aye LaValle
    Aye Libous Aye Little Aye Marcellino Aye Martins
    Aye Maziarz Aye McDonald Nay Montgomery Aye Nozzolio
    Aye O’Mara Nay Oppenheimer Nay Parker Nay Peralta
    Nay Perkins Aye Ranzenhofer Aye Ritchie Nay Rivera
    Aye Robach Aye Saland Aye Sampson Nay Savino
    Nay Serrano Aye Seward Aye Skelos Exc Smith
    Nay Squadron Nay Stavisky Nay Stewart-Cousins Aye Valesky
    Aye Young Aye Zeldin


  3. Bob says:

    “The chunkiest measure is the Job Creation and Taxpayer Act (S.1891), which would provide businesses with a three-year tax credit of up to $5,000 for each new job created….”

    Yeah, right, as if businesses need anymore taxpayer handouts and tax loopholes. I really feel much better now, knowing that my NYS Senate is looking out for me.

  4. Just My Opinion says:

    Sounds bites or not, they are out there to be voted on by the Assembly. Have to commend them a bit for atleast making the moves.

  5. gecannonphd says:

    Yes, these are one house bills, and will garner limited support in the Assembly Dem. caucus.
    It is mostly GOP sturm und drang, signifying very little.
    If you peruse the Budget Tax Expenditure report, you will find over $5 billion in business tax credits/exemptions.
    They exist and apparently have done little to promote the state’s upstate economy.
    The enterprise zone program,with almost unlimited expansion, now has builtin long-term tax credits that cost the state over $500 million yearly. It also has been discontinued because it is ineffective and rift with political corruption.

    The aspects of these bills that require a Constitutional amendment are political shell games. The amendments will take years to become part of the state Constitution,even if they are approved eventually.

    The 2/3rds super majority for tax increases is a silly, dangerous proposal. It has contributed to California’s chronic budget crisis.

  6. mitch says:

    A vetting from Schneiderman??? Pretty obvious given his record in the Senate that he’d be against any kind of spending restraint or tax relief.

  7. cuomo=tea party says:

    More give aways to the corporations and rich special interests. How can you create an economy that is service based? Manufacturers will not come to NYS even if you lowered taxes to zero. Even if you give them money! This is more of a give away because some (not all) will find a loopholes (see the Empire Zone program)and will continue to ship jobs to China. Unless these politicians get serious about outsourcing and China, nothing will change. The jobs have not left NYS due taxes, its cheap slave labor in China. You cannot argue that (Oneida, Bernzomatic, etc.) So called Tea Party individuals are not patriots if they endorse sending jobs to China. If they are serious and want to say they are patriots then why don’t they lobby for jobs in the USA? Good question huh? Ask Cuomo about that. He is playing us. Progressive my behind!

  8. logic_required says:

    The Senate Republicans haven’t missed a beat. Senator Alesi asks us to believe that eliminating the final year of the personal income surcharge on small businesses would pay for itself because the lost revenue of 400 million dollars would be made up by increased business activity.

    His math is a bit off. An effective tax rate of six percent would require 6.7 billion dollars in taxable activity to yield 400 million dollars in revenue. This math requires an economic multiplier of over 16.
    Perhaps the honorable Senator can point us to the peer-reviewed article that concludes that such a multiplier is possible.

    It isn’t.

  9. David says:

    How Come Legislators don’t pay for their parking? The money comes out of there tax paid budgets.

  10. Pete Sikora says:

    They’re doing Proposition 13 for NYS, which worked out great for California. Welcome to the tea party era of the NYS Senate. The social contract of we’re all in this together is now phony populism that shifts wealthy upwards… because we’re not unequal enough yet. The rich need more help!

  11. DiHaynes says:

    So again, even our local government majority abandons New York’s most vulnerable. Those who lost their jobs early in the recession are having the hardest time recovering, and this bull… I mean “bill” completely ignores that fact. How could they even consider providing another unaccountable corporate tax break and actually exclude exhaustees from the hiring benefit? Government should be a lot more concerned about the detriment to society caused by creating a new underclass. This growing group includes formerly middle class Americans who desperately want and need to work. The error of writing and/or supporting such a careless bill is a sign of incompetence and another embarrassing episode in what is starting (again) to look like “The New York State Senate Clown Show.”

  12. andrew says:

    Imagine that the Dem’s will be the PARTY OF NO in NYS…. Silver your a joke!

  13. andrew says:

    I’m glad your worried about the 5 billion in handouts… and not the other 136 B in hand outs… Cut off your nose in spite of your face.

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