Governor Paterson is at it again, tax rather than cut spending

Guest Contributor : George Marino

Governor Paterson is at it again trying to pass a soda tax instead of trying to cut spending, true to the nature of the beast he is again trying his best to raise taxes. Governor enough is enough this tax will only add to the burden of low income families and raise the cost of living in New York State even higher. You have closed our parks, raised taxes and did nothing to cut spending. It’s punish the people till they agree to except your tax raises.

Why is it always the first things that are cut always affect the tax payer personally and not the officials who created the problems in the first place? Millions of dollars can be cut from the budget by cutting the bureaucracy in government but we never hear anything on that subject.
If you truly want to cut spend prove it.

You can start by sending renewals for license, registration and other document in one language, English there is no reason we should have to print everything in several languages, just that one thing alone would save New York taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions in printing coat.
Governor please, it's time to stop peeing on our leg and telling us it’s raining!

Think you qualify for one of Obama's healthcare tax credits? Think again

Matthew Clemente

 

In an article written for the Associated Press, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar takes a closer look at the new tax credits included in President Obama's health care overhaul law.  Alonso-Zaldivar reports that many small business owners who were lead to believe that they would qualify for the President's health care credits were disappointed to find out that they are in fact ineligible:

When the administration unveiled the small business tax credit earlier this week, officials touted its "broad eligibility" for companies with fewer than 25 workers and average annual wages under $50,000 that provide health coverage... Lost in the fine print: The credit drops off sharply once a company gets above 10 workers and $25,000 average annual wages.

The administration's failure to make note of this "fine print" has left many small business owners searching for their piece of the tax credit pie.  One such owner, Zach Hoffman of Springfield, Illinois, was under the impression that his furniture company would receive federal assistance for the $79,200 it pays annually in health insurance premiums for its 24 employees.  "It leaves you with this feeling of a bait-and-switch," he said once he found out that his company--which pays workers an average of $35,000 a year-- did not qualify for the credit.
Linda Blumberg, an economist from the Urban Institute public policy center, says:

You can get zero even if you are not hitting the max on both pieces.

That's because although on paper the credit appears to be available to companies with fewer than 25 workers and average wages of $50,000, in practice it's not as simple as that.  Blumberg says that a complex formula that combines the number of employees and their average salary works against small businesses that have more than 10 workers and $25,000 in average wages.  So even though it is possible for slightly larger small businesses to qualify for the tax credit, it is far less likely.
Hoffman says that in order for his furniture company to get the most out of the federal tax credit, he would have to cut his work force by 14 employees and lower the wages of those who remained.  He believes that that seems like a strange outcome, especially considering the fact that unemployment is close to 10 percent.

Boycott illegal immigrant “Sanctuary Cities.”

Sanctuary Cities are dangerous for Americans

I think Americans are going about this all wrong. We need to boycott the dangerous “Sanctuary Cities” that ignore immigration laws and harbor illegal criminal aliens! The illegal criminal immigrants run rampant and commit crimes and fear little. They are simply not safe. Innocent people and their families  have been victimized by illegal aliens as a result of the refusal of our elected officials to enforce United States immigration laws in their cities. Americans remain unprotected from this unwanted invasion of unidentified people from across the world. No region of the country has been spared and the citizens presented come from all walks of life. Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily.  At one point, the death toll in 2006 far overshadows total U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq AND Afghanistan at that time.

There are hundreds of stories lime these but here are some examples

-Illegal Alien, Rafael Ramirez Perez, Injures Three, Kills One US Citizen In Hit And Run Drunk Driving Accident After Being Arrested 4 Times And Deported

-Anthony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were returning from a picnic when they were gunned down on June 16, allegedly by Salvadoran national Edwin Ramos, 22.

-Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox was gunned down about 1 a.m., during a traffic stop a mile east of Delta. Her body was found by a second deputy, who was responding to a request for backup. Fox a mother of two, had been with the Millard County Sheriff’s Department five years. Millard Country Sheriff Robert A. Dekker has informed the media that the shooter, Roberto Miramontes Roman, is a Mexican national,

-Legally Licensed Illegal Alien Drunk Driver Kills Marine and his Date

-Mauricio Escalante a 33-year-old illegal immigrant was arrested Saturday for stabbing to death a 17-year-old The teenager’s affront that set off the fatal confrontation — daring to speak English in America.

Start boycotting Sanctuary Cities and let them know we had enough.