OPINION ON THE CAP IN PRINT FROM AROUND NY STATE Thursday, May 26, 2011…you won’t find any BONA FIDE grass roots property tax reformers saying anything good about the sleazy “Cap” …just politicians and their richest campaign donors and their front organizations…..
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The NYTimes comes out roaring —-busting the CAP and busting Albany for trying to fool us….Now let’s write to them and promote the REAL answer which is our circuit breaker.
OPINION | May 26, 2011
Editorial: Reject the Tax Cap
FROM THE AP WIREH
The Omnibus Consortium said a “hard” property tax cap of 2 percent growth a year will hurt schools and local social services while not providing tax relief to those who need it most. The group wants a “circuit breaker” that would factor in taxpayers’ incomes to drive more tax relief to middle and lower income New Yorkers, and less to wealthier property owners to continue what the group considers adequate funding for schools and local government services and their workers.
“The simplest solution to a problem is not always the most effective,” said Bill Samuels, founder of the government reform group called the New Roosevelt Initiative. “Overburdened taxpayers with limited incomes need personal property tax relief now. And woe to the politician who supports this rhetorically popular, but ill-conceived, tax cap when their constituents open their next tax bill and find no relief.”
Gioia Shebar of the group Tax Nightmare says Cuomo’s cap is a gift to corporate taxpayers.
“The discredited cap doesn’t meet any need but for politicians to look busy,” Shebar said. “Our inequitable, chaotic tax system — which cries out for reform — has resulted in that classic moment when panicked leaders say, ‘Shut up and drink the Kool-Aid,’” Shebar said Tuesday.
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