NNY's Democratic Team is vowing to fight their own Governor's recommendation to close a prison in Ogdensburg. Senator Aubertine and Assemblywoman Russell are getting a dose of angst from the locals, but fact is if there is going to be cutting, something somewhere has to actually get cut....In the Governor's budget, the Maple City drew the short straw, leaving local Dems with some splainin' to do.
This is the flipside of years of dotting upstate communities with prisons as a means of compensating the locals for living in a state where doing business is an exercise in self-flagellation.
As I have posted already, here's a loophole in the law that could give these lawmakers revenue. Stop the practice that allows IDA's to cancel out state sales tax to anyone who asks.....
Watertown Daily Times | Prison backers rally for support
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Darrell & Addie's days are numbered!
Mayor Graham wrote:
"Stop the practice that allows IDA's to cancel out state sales tax to anyone who asks....."
I look forward to your letter to the IDA asking them not to grant sales tax and mortgage tax exemptions on that new hotel project.
On Galloo What I heard last night. The island now generates 62,000 a year in tax revenue for town and school taxes. When the project is developed it would be in the millions a year.
Sarah Palin could even do the math and see this is more revenue for local governments. Why can't you?
Mr. Mayor…your equivocating on the city’s penchant for giving away taxpayer dollars versus those of the county was akin to attempting to pick up a turd by the clean end. Good effort though!
The O-burg prison should be closed, as should about a dozen others around the state. Don't worry, it won't happen. Like all meaningful cuts, we will avoid them, vote out Paterson, bring in Cuomo, and be right back where we are now. Just two years further in debt and with the fat class a little fatter.
Live by the Govt. pork, and you'll die by it too.
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