A published report says Gov. David Paterson plans to increase taxes on insurance policies, create an “obesity tax” on non-diet sodas, revive the state sales tax on clothing, and potentially shift more health costs to individuals after changing funding and taxing in the healthcare field. Errol Cockfield, spokesman for Gov. David Paterson who is scheduled to release his budget proposal Tuesday to the Legislature, won’t deny the tax proposals first reported in the Albany Times Union Sunday. He says details of the budget will be released Tuesday.
Cockfield has said Paterson has no plans to increase income taxes. A $12.5 billion deficit is projected for the 2009-10 fiscal year that begins April 1st.
Taxing the fat would be sweet, but not how they are proposing. People should be weighed and measured on an anual basis and taxed for being fat pieces of shit.
Everything else, meh. They will never tax reservation cigs.
And lol @ Cockfield.
you mean cutting spending? Actually, Paterson was. The senate just said no and didn’t offer an alternative. If you eliminate the spending side, guess what you get to close a budget gap?
This is what happened a month ago, that led to this.
He wanted to cut Medicaid, education, and SUNY spending. He’s not your average tax and spender.
The state can recommend it but the federal government will shut it down. It has to go before the fed for that and you can’t break a treaty.
I don’t know, I think I would have rather had the land that was originally mine and family not slaughtered, moved and repressed instead of casinos etc. :gotme:
they’re a sovereign nation… It’s not their fault our retarded goverment doesn’t have the ability to manage money. Too fucking bad (not that I even really support them as much as I don’t support NY)
eh, same result… NY is a fucked up state, and will always be. It’s not the democrats or republicans fault… it’s the peoples. Maybe someday they’ll wake up but have my doubts
lol great, tax the natives and lets have fun with our highways again! wonder how much shit will go up in fire. this guy is now on the number one target list for natives.
If you go to canada, you have to declare and pay duty/tax on what you bought there when you get back. If they really are a soverign nation, then treat them accordingly. The Smokin Joe’s of the world have made out like bandits for long enough. They’re a soverign nation for anything that benefits them, but they’re the first to use all of our services. There are none of them alive today that had their land taken away from them, that argument is the same BS people say when they argue for slave reparations. I don’t give a shit what happened hundreds of years ago. This isn’t taking money out of your average native in a trailer’s pocket, it’s taking it out of multi-millionaires’ that only got that way by taking advantage. Fuck 'em.
As long as NY wants to continue having the most liberal Medicaid system in the country I applaud anything they do that will cut down on health care costs.
Make diet soda less expensive than regular soda and more people will switch to diet.
Close the BS tax loophole that lets non-natives buy cigarettes tax free from a “sovereign nation” and bring them back to our and more people will be forced to quit smoking. I’m so tired of this stupid, “they’re a sovereign nation” argument because it makes no sense. Either you’re truly your own nation, in which case non-residents of your country pay duty on all purchases they bring back to the US, or you’re part of the US and charge sales tax. You don’t get to pick and choose when you’re a sovereign nation and when you’re part of the state.
And Joe, before you get all righteous about the Republicans blocking the spending cuts, realize that Sheldon Silver, Democrat speaker of the assembly, has been the biggest roadblock to Medicaid cuts for years and years in this state.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s office declined to comment on the current budget plan, but the Assembly has included a welfare grant increase in its budget resolution every year since 2006. It has never passed due to opposition in the Senate, which has been under Republican control for decades.
Oh yeah, but we gave control of the state senate over to the Dems this year. Yay!
No arguments there. Sheldon Silver and Joe Bruno had a long-standing battle for NY’s biggest douche. It appears Silver wins now by default, although Bruno’s little buddy, Skelos, looks like Bruno taught him all he knew on the subject.
If they really play the soverign nation card hard again, we can always offer to give them the tax free cigarettes and take away the welfare, medicaid, highway aid, subsidies, etc. that we so generously give this soverign nation. Then they can make the choice of whether to close the millionaires’ loophole or go for what actually benefits their people.