WHAT DOES ALBANY LOOK LIKE WHEN IT WORKS???……nov. 30
I THOUGHT YOU’D NEVER ASK? That’s because we all know what Albany looks like when it DOESN’T work.
Been there and done that….Today was better.
We’ve come a long way from the days when –in response to our lobbying for property tax reform –we heard folks in Albany [...]
I got this message from a tax reformer who is on the front line: 11/ 28
Property values are plummeting into the hellosphere, however the property taxes are escalating into the stratosphere. Regular people get VERY confused about this little formula.
Property values and taxes do not go hand in hand as one goes down, so does [...]
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
We will be at meetings in Albany on Monday, Nov. 30th and will report back to you ….
I am thankful that we are much closer to PROPERTY TAX reform than we were a year ago….
…and hopefully our MEETINGS on Monday will take us even closer to our goal of ending the
TAXNIGHTMARE
11/22
When I saw this headline in that great paper the Legislative Gazette …
Milestone for “Albany Mummies”
I immediately thought …….aw heck, you know what I thought.J Wouldn’t you think the same thing??
Of course the story was about real mummies in Albany’s Institute of History and Art not a critique of the legislature’s last emergency session.
Along with [...]
11/22
“ The Property Tax is just one thing in competition for funds in the governor’s budget with a lot of other things.”…..NOT SO!!
That is a facile, disingenuous, and frankly ignorant description (by someone who ought to have known better) of the struggle to address this confiscatory tax.
Delivery of public services is of paramount [...]
MEETINGS between THE OMNIBUS CONSORTIUM AND DECISION MAKERS IN ALBANY ARE SCHEDULED TO BEGIN NOV.30TH….today is Nov. 19th
We are finished with discussing, shaping, and propounding the solution to the property tax crisis. As you probably know , any amelioration of this civic disaster must meet the following criteria:
· real and substantial relief for desperate taxpayers ASAP
· fiscal responsibility
· support from [...]
SOPHISTRY..THY NAME IS ALBANY…Mon., Nov. 16
The kind of reasoning that goes on in Albany these days would make the ancient Greek Sophists blush for shame. The Sophists tried to teach logic in argument.
Today their name is used –perversely- in the word “sophistry” which is just the opposite…an argument that uses confusion and illogic to [...]
GORNISCHT HELFEN!!
As you know sometimes one searches foreign languages to look for perfect meaning-a word or expression that fits the situation so well you use it in its original form because it would lose in the translation.
“Cool” and “Okay” are used everywhere in the world…
Examples abound. “Mangia!” (Italian) conveys so much more than just “eat”. “Kawo [...]
NO GOOD NEWS FROM THE NORTH
BY GEORGE
DAMIAN HAS PACKED UP AND LEFT
MAN LEAVES STATE FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE AFTER LOSING CENTURY OLD FAMILY HOME AT COUNTY AUCTION, (ALSO 27 OTHER PROPERTIES OWNED BY PERMANENT RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY) THE OWNER SAID, “I NEED TO LET IT GO” I TRIED TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY [...]