Community first....bottom up....performance based....the press release is loaded with lots of economic development jargon and bromides about locally driven solutions shaping the individual economic recovery of regions....
Trouble is no one I talk to knows what the Governor's planned regional economic councils are all about...what they will do...and what they can fund....
Watertown is in a region that snakes around to Albany, so we have to hope we are the tail that wags the dog.
There is natural skepticism about these kind of rearrange-the-deck-chairs solutions.
The Governor is planning an ad campaign stressing that New York State is "open for business." Again, that's fine but the state has a heckuva reputation to live down.
Marketing alone will not change the climate because our problems are not just in perception but reality.
Less regulation, lower taxes and an Ontario-style reorder of the structure of local government would be a start.
So much of what we purport to do in the jobs arena is forcing one segment of the economy to subsidize another to create the impression that jobs are created....
The fact is all businesses must get a break so that the tide rises...and that does raise all the ships..
Governor Cuomo Holds Cabinet Meeting to Announce Phase II in His Plan to Build a New New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
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NY is open for business? Here is another ding to my dwindling bank account.
Important Notice to Employers...
since 2009 New York State has borrowed over $3 billion from the federal Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund. In order to pay the interest due for 2011 on these federal loans, New York State is required by state law to assess a temporary charge on employers, called an Interest Assessment Surcharge (IAS).
New York's Interest Assessment Surcharge rate for 2011 is 0.25%. Each employer's surcharge amount is determined by multiplying the total taxable wages in the most recently completed payroll year (October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010) by the IAS rate of 0.25 percent. Therefore, the maximum amount that most employers will be assessed is $21.25 per employee. Payment of the IAS is due by August 15, 2011.
Well said.
If he would just repeal the laws Davis signed it would be a big start.
You cannot discriminate against felons??? What a great law libtards!
You have to include a report showing what you pay your employees once a year with their paychecks? Shouldn't the employees know what the hell I pay them?
Now we have OSHA coming around informing useless pedantic rules in the name of safety that have nothing to do with safety.
I bet I could name ten privileges I had to take away from my employees because the government made it cost me to much time and headaches to continue doing them.
Believe reform when you see it ! So far Cuomo 2.0 has failed to deliver substantive reform
1. On Time Budget -- Big deal constitution specifies it
2. Property tax cap - OH really !! in small town where teachers their relatives and others who have vested interests or familial nepotism in the school can easily override the 60 % of vote margin to defeat the cap -SO its got NO teeth
3. Big win for PANDERING tho to the Gay constituency NOT so much for everybody else
4.Mandates , commission , authorities and too damn many state agencies , SUNY etc that are both redundant and UN REFORMED -Mr Governor
5.Too many small school district fiefdoms and zero effort toward REAL consolidation
Summary : Ususal political hot air -- more heat then light and damn little tax relief .
Wake me up when REAL REFORM happens -- YAWN
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