NOTES FROM THE FRONT:
THERE’S A WHOLE LOTTA BAD COMING DOWN THE PIKE IF WE DON’T GET THE OMNIBUS CIRCUIT BREAKER ASAP!
We need to win this struggle before it ALL hits the fan..big woosh.
FOR ONE EXAMPLE YOU HAVE BEEN READING ABOUT THE PENSION SHORTFALL …IT’S DUE SOON AND THE HUGE LOSSES WILL BE MADE UP [...]
Thanks to the media for keeping the heat on Albany!!
Special thanks to host and reformer Mike Mazzerelli –WGNY- who invited Susan Zimet to talk about the devastating effects of prop. taxes on renters and homeowners throughout the state.
Susan (Zee) asked Frank Mauro-the guru of good government..the father of fiscal equity…the paterfamilias (look it up) [...]
RETURNED FROM ALBANY ( late yesterday) -NOT EXACTLY waving OUR SHIELDS AND NOT EXACTLY ON THEM……little classical allusion here …YOU KNOW, THE WARRIOR WAS SUPPOSED TO COME BACK WITHOUT HAVING SURRENDERED HIS SHIELD… OR DEAD…oh forget it!
Our Omnibus Band continues to batter at the gates of the Albany castle with mixed success…John & Roberta [...]
EVERY DAY BRINGS US CLOSER…
to property tax relief….
to prop. tax reform
..AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE GO TO Albany EVERY other DAY….
We (Omnibus Consortium) will be going there AGAIN tomorrow to meet with Assembly prop. tax policy experts.
This is getting old….and everything seems to require getting up at 6A.M.
So we’d better be getting closer to [...]
Tax caps don’t cap your taxes….the circuit breaker does!!
Unfortunately all this prop. tax language has people confused.
A tax ‘cap’ doesn’t cap an individual’s own property tax bill. It may put a ‘cap’ on some kinds of tax levies….but not your tax bills.
ONLY the circuit breaker deals with an individual’s property taxes. S4239 the Bill we [...]
TEACHERS -and other school employees- AROUND THE STATE-MINDFUL OF THE RECESSION’S EFFECTS ON HOMEOWNERS HAVE VOLUNTARILY TAKEN CUTS AND MADE DONATIONS TO KEEP THE BUDGETS DOWN….READ THE NYTIMES ARTICLE TO FIND OUT WHERE..
Are you listening Albany? Not only are you not (with the exception of Gov. Paterson) offering to sacrifice any of your salaries, perks, [...]
…and so the beat goes on…you have read my description of the “leaders” meeting in Albany on Tuesday…if not, it’s below this report.
To see how these “servants of the people” can drive normally pretty sane and placid folks to contemplate mayhem, please click on the link below.
You will see the Trumpbours, Bill and Ellie,- who [...]
Now that waterboarding is probably history, may I suggest that suspected terrorists be forced to sit through a meeting of the “leaders” in Albany….
Today, Tues. May 19th, nine members of the Omnibus Consortium representing tax reformers, good government groups, unions, and farmers -including yours truly representing Taxnightmare.org -sacrificed for the cause of property tax justice [...]
TAXNIGHTMARE.ORG BRINGS YOU MESSAGES FROM DEDICATED PROP. TAX REFORMERS AROUND THE STATE…THIS IS FROM RICH IN TICONDEROGA
Dear fellow New York property tax reform supporter:
I believe you will be happy to know that NY State Senator Liz Krueger is sponsoring S4239, the “Omnibus” property tax circuit breaker legislation that many of us have been supporting. [...]
OKAY GUYS…..THIS IS GETTING SERIOUS..IT’S SHOOTOUT TIME AT THE OK CORRAL…TRANSLATION..There is a meeting of the “leaders” in Albany on Tuesday May19th to decide the fate of all you property taxpayers (and that includes renters).
“Leaders” in case you didn’t know, means Gov. Paterson, Speaker Silver (Assembly), and Majority Leader Smith (Senate).
The last meeting was on [...]