Spending New Yorkers Dry: Cuomo’s Fantasy Budget
Gov. Cuomo must go. He’s going to continue to drive people into leaving our state because of ridiculously high taxes (“Andrew in La-LaLand,” Editorial, Jan. 17).
President Trump’s tax cut works for the majority of people. Cuomo screams and yells, but the problem is not the president. It’s Democrats who do nothing but tax and spend.
Cuomo is proposing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax increases. It’s time voters kick these Democrats out of office. New York is one of the highest taxed states in the country. Give Cuomo another term, and it’ll get worse. Gene Lindsay Mastic
Cuomo continues to heap more taxes on us, while complaining that Trump’s cuts are unfair and illegal.
New York state implemented the mandatory Paid Family Leave Program as of Jan. 1, which all earners have to pay for. And now he wants congestion pricing for drivers entering Manhattan. Enough is enough. Frank Asprea Brooklyn Cuomo is worried that the GOP tax cut will spur higher-income New Yorkers to leave the state because the cap on the state-and-local (SALT) deduction will increase their taxes.
But Sen. Charles Schumer calls the Trump tax cut a gift to the wealthy. Which is it? They can’t both be right. Perhaps they should try to get their stories straight. Frank Derato Norwalk, Conn.
As election time nears, Cuomo is full of ideas. He courageously vows to sue the federal government over the new tax cuts and to implement his own wage-tax plan.
Someday he may be ready to take on even scarier issues, like education, the MTA and poverty. Robert Mangi Westbury
Trump’s tax reform will wake up those affected by SALT-deduction caps.
Eventually, taxpayers should realize they have to hold state and local politicians accountable for squandering funds on supposed entitlements.
This can will no longer be kicked to the federal level. Richard Stern Manhattan
Cuomo likes to boast of the 2 percent propertytax cap in New York, as he did in his budget address.
However, we have to keep in mind that not all New York residents benefit from this cap. It doesn’t apply to those living in the five boroughs of New York City, or to residents of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers.
That means about 46 percent of state residents derive no benefit from the tax cap. Herbert Kraut Woodmere