Sentences with phrase «backing of the property tax cap»

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The governor has been sabre - rattling for some time about calling the Legislature back to Albany between the primary and general elections in hopes of getting lawmaker to act (in some cases yet again) on his property tax cap proposal.

Former Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, now the CEO of the Rochester Business Alliance, was among the signatories of a letter that backs a permanent cap on property taxes in the state.

A range of business groups on Tuesday backed Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan's push to make the state's cap on annual property tax increases permanent.

If you want to stop the rocketing rise of your taxes, I invite you to join me and start by backing budget cuts and real mandate relief under a two percent property tax cap.

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

``... I think many of (Cuomo's) concepts and plans were the ones John and I talked about four years ago — the property tax cap and Medicaid reform are all things I agree with strongly, but the state wasn't ready back then.»

«It's interesting that the Governor would be willing to raise money for the same cabal of Democrat Senators who in 2009 raised taxes... and are now itching to do away with the property tax cap, go on a massive taxpayer - financed spending spree and roll back all of the economic progress we've made over the last six years,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for Senate Republicans.

The statement comes after Senate Republicans have tried to beat back rumors they don't truly want a cap on local property taxes because of concerns over mandate relief.

Ultimately that year Cuomo wound up taking the party's endorsement after it backed his platform, which included a property - tax cap and after the U.S. attorney's office cleared the WFP of wrongdoing.

Later, they backed Cuomo on the 2 percent property tax cap and the overhaul of the tax code.

In an election year in which the front - running Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo is pitching a statewide property tax cap, New York State United Teachers» backing of Mangan may be calibrated to remind Democratic leaders of the union's political clout.

On Tuesday the city of Oswego will decide whether it wants to bring back a five percent property tax cap, but many of the city's elected officials warn that it could come with some unintended consequences.

«Residents of the 55th Senate District need to know that a vote for Ted O» Brien is a vote to put the New York City Democrats and their special interest allies, who want to overturn the property tax cap and obstruct Governor Cuomo's agenda, back in control of the State Senate.»

Gov. David Paterson, who threatened to call the Legislature — especially the Assembly — back to Albany this fall in hopes of getting a deal on a property tax cap, said this morning both houses must return earlier than expected if lawmakers want the state to benefit from the $ 26 billion aid bill passed this week in Washington, D.C.

During a sit - down at the State Fair this afternoon with YNN's fantastic Bill Carey, Gov. David Paterson reiterated his pledge to bring the Legislature back to Albany prior to the November elections in hopes of getting lawmakers on the record on his property tax cap proposal.

The back - and - forth with de Blasio could signal that Senate Republicans intend to try, over the coming months of budget negotiations, to trade the Medicaid cuts for a cap in growth in city property tax assessments, a deal that would echo the Cuomo administration's own logic when it first proposed the cuts in the governor's executive budget.

He says the panel does have to consider the money, at a time when the state has not fulfilled a court order that said the state needed to spend billions of more dollars school funding, and at a time when a new property tax cap might lead to lay offs of teachers and school program cut backs.

The resulting Committee to Save New York rapidly became the state's biggest single lobbyist, raising and spending at least $ 15 million and running TV and radio ads that backed Cuomo's (ultimately successful) proposals for capping local property taxes and reducing the cost of public - employee pensions.

«Thinking back on what we accomplished makes me tired,» said Cuomo after reading through a list of legislative successes, including the historic passage of gay marriage and a property tax cap.

But for Zeldin's suburban House seat, where incomes and property taxes are higher, capping deductions at 10,000 and altering the mortgage tax deduction, is a problem, even as he backs different aspects of the proposal.

The future of the state's property tax cap is one of the big items on the docket as state lawmakers head back to Albany to finish up the current session.

The mayor's team also hopes its legislative allies will threaten some of the tax cuts Cuomo has proposed, which include the elimination of a dedicated bank tax, a roll - back of the estate tax, an effective «freeze» on local property taxes hooked to consolidation and adherence to the two - percent property tax cap.

Stephen Flanagan, a gravelly - voiced Tea Party activist, spent most of May and June in the back room of a dilapidated Long Island office complex lobbying for Andrew Cuomo's property - tax cap, which finally passed as part of Albany's big budget package.

We need to end the property tax cap and the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which has balanced the state budget on the backs of our children by cutting state aid to schools for the last five years.

That duty was left up to the Committee to Save New York, a coalition of well - heeled business interests backing a property tax cap, a reduced budget and no new taxes.

The business - backed Committee to Save New York is out with its latest TV ad — a companion spot to the imminent «People First Tour» that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and members of his cabinet are launching to promote the governor's top post-budget priorities: The property tax cap, ethics reform and legalization of same - sex marriage.

«The real effect of the property tax cap is it's bringing us back to the pack, if you will, of the national norm,» Pokalsky said.

Property taxpayers already receive a portion of their own money back that they paid in taxes, if their school or local government further holds the line on spending beyond the state's two percent per year property Property taxpayers already receive a portion of their own money back that they paid in taxes, if their school or local government further holds the line on spending beyond the state's two percent per year property property tax cap.

Property tax relief has been a priority for NYSAR for many years, dating back to the first introduction of a tax cap proposal in 1994.