Sentences with phrase «state spending increases»

Overall, Cuomo's budget caps state spending increases at under 2 percent over last year's budget.

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans approved constitutional amendments capping state spending increases at 2 percent a year and requiring a two - thirds vote of the Legislature to approve new taxes.

Flanagan argues there are other ways to find savings, including keeping state spending increases at the 2 % level Cuomo has called for during his tenure, a requirement the Senate GOP would like to put into law.

Legislators came up with an extra $ 1.9 million, part of an overall state spending increase on education.

Queens Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, chair of his chamber's Social Services committee, says Cuomo's self - imposed 2 percent cap on state spending increases is hurting the poor.

The investors service also labeled the state budget overall a «credit positive» as well, citing both the 2 percent limit in state spending increases year over year, plus $ 300 million in pre-K funding for New York City.

«Under the Senate proposal, year - to - year State spending increases would be limited to 120 percent of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or 4 percent, whichever is less,» the release said.

Nixon also criticizes Cuomo for trying to keep annual state spending increases to 2 percent, calling it «disastrous.»

Cuomo said the spending is feasible because for six years he's kept state spending increases under 2 percent, which helped put the state into a fiscal position that it no longer must face a «Sophie's Choice» — choosing between fiscal restraint and funding progressive measures.

During his first term, Cuomo produced smaller inflation - adjusted state spending increases than New York has seen in any four - year period since Hugh Carey's first term in the mid-1970s.

This year won't require anything as drastic, but the budget director says Cuomo is seeking to keep the total state spending increase, which includes health care and education, at under two percent.

Fiscal watchdogs, including the Empire Center, question whether the tax extension is necessary, however, saying the state's finances can remain in balance if Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers find ways of curtailing spending, even while holding an overall state spending increase to a 2 percent rise.

She described Cuomo as «a reasonable person to work with» and lauded him for a serious effort at keeping to a 2 % annual limit in state spending increases and for his efforts at assisting her district's recovery from Hurricane Sandy.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who was re-elected last fall, has prided himself on fiscal austerity, capping state spending increases at 2 percent, which — considering increases in education and Medicaid — means «the rest of the state budget basically has to be zero,» the governor said in January.

He's kept state spending increases to two percent each year, imposed a cap on the allowable increases in local property taxes and resisted efforts in 2011 to renew a 2009 income tax surcharge.

After all, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Republicans in the state Senate still support limiting state spending increases overall to 2 percent.

Also, we continue to believe that state spending increases should be minimized to the greatest extent possible.

They also noted the budget holds the state spending increase to under 2 % for the sixth straight year.

The Cuomo source said both Kaminsky and Haber support key Cuomo initiatives like 2 % caps on local property tax and state spending increases.