The State Budget took a
Small Step in the right direction...
Small Step in the right direction...
Commits to creating jobs in Western New York.
Pros:
- Saves agricultural programs for our communities’ farmers.
- Focuses on job creation in Western New York.
- Provides low-cost energy for New York’s small businesses.
- Protects important programs for our seniors, including the EPIC prescription drug program.
- Reforms the Medicaid system to save taxpayer money.
- Reduces spending for government operations by ten percent.
- Merges redundant state agencies.
...but we need a
Leap Forward.
Leap Forward.
No mandate relief
No property tax cap
No property tax cap
Cons:
- Reduces education funding for Western New York school children.
- Provides no mandate relief for local governments, school districts or taxpayers.
- Fails to provide a property tax cap.
- Fails to enact a state spending cap.
- Leaves the fate of our corrections workers unclear.