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    Spitzer Eyes Local Income Tax

    A top aide to Gov. Eliot Spitzer suggested a local income tax as a possible method of reining in soaring property taxes, the chairman of the governor's tax study commission said yesterday.

    "I told him it was a political non-starter," the chairman, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, said in an interview.

    The suggestion was made by Spitzer's senior adviser, Lloyd Constantine, earlier in the day after the inaugural meeting of the State Property Tax Commission in the governor's conference room in Manhattan.

    Constantine approached Suozzi in the hallway and made the suggestion, apparently unaware that a Newsday reporter was nearby. Later, in an interview, he said he wanted Suozzi to make the public and commission members aware of alternatives to the property tax for schools. "I was not suggesting it was a good idea," he said.

    Talk of a local income tax would fly in the face of what Spitzer had said as recently as last week.

    On Jan. 23, Spitzer dismissed talk of a local income tax, saying "I think realistically if the commission is looking, as I hope it is, to craft something that will be implemented, it will come up with something that is within the bounds of the context of debate that we have had. I don't think that [a local income tax] is the sort of proposal that would be readily implementable in the current context."

    During the commission meeting, Constantine sat silently along a wall as Suozzi outlined for commission members "the stark challenge" they faced.

    A briefing book distributed to the commission members outlined the scope of the problem, and set broad goals: create a package of reforms for legislative approval, identify the best taxing practices for school districts, and "design an intelligent cap" on property taxes.

    Any property tax cap would not apply to New York City, which has a personal income tax that supports the bulk of education costs.

    Suozzi said the commission would hold five meetings on Feb. 12, March 5 and 26 and April 10 and 23 - to take testimony from citizens and citizen groups. He said the panel would submit preliminary recommendations on May 15 and a final report by Dec. 1.

    newsday.com

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    Yes sir lets give the Reich more of our money.

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    Yeah. We need to find more ways to tax people.

    We couldn't possibly cut spending...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Eat My Gun
    Yeah. We need to find more ways to tax people.

    We couldn't possibly cut spending...
    This cutting of spending you are talking about....I'm intrigued....

    Ha!

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    another tax and spend liberal....does this state know anything else

    they marketed this guy as being tough enough to straighten out albany but he doesnt even have the guts to tackle indian taxation or unions.

    this guy is nothing more than another left wing liberal communist jew and hes shaping up to be worse than Cuomo and Cuomo was pretty bad. Pataki was bad also....is it possible for NYS to ever get a decent governor?

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