New York’s corporate tax structure is looking a lot like Swiss cheese these days. Unfortunately the holes are getting bigger.
In fact, general business corporations have gone from carrying 9.6 percent of New York State’s tax load in the 1970s to a piddling 4.3 percent last year.
January 12th, 2012
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1) Reduce big money’s influence in politics. Governor Cuomo pledged to push for a system of public financing of elections in his State of the State address. We and our allies are organizing to help make it happen.
January 6th, 2012
How many New Yorkers actually pay the state’s millionaires tax?
We analyzed the latest New York State Department of Taxation and Finance data and found:
• Only one in 38 state income-tax filers are subject to…
November 19th, 2011
November 10, 2011
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Where’s the morality in cutting services for the vast majority while lowering taxes for the rich?
That’s what New Yorkers like Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez are asking.
Our research shows that, in 2008, less than…
November 10th, 2011
September 14, 2011
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New York’s economy isn’t the only thing that’s shaky: a new report shows that our state is home to at least 2,108 structurally deficient bridges.
The Southern Tier counties – still experiencing major flooding that…
September 14th, 2011
July 14, 2011
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Memphis, 1968
Black sanitation workers struck for fair wages, decent conditions and an end to workplace discrimination. They struck to unionize.
They understood that collective bargaining could win them dignity on the job.
Now collective bargaining…
July 14th, 2011
July 7, 2011
“I’ve never made this many cuts, never had to.” – James P. Mazgajewski, Cheektowaga-Sloan Superintendent.
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What does a tax cut for millionaires look like?
Communities across New York are starting to find out – as…
July 7th, 2011
May 12, 2011
Who’s the opposite of Robin Hood?
The billionaire mayor of the most unequal city in the United States.
His Executive Budget eliminates 2,140 summer youth jobs
It withdraws support from a program to assist sex assault survivors.…
May 12th, 2011
March 31, 2011
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Fact of the week: The Governor’s own four year financial plan has a hole that’s the size of the millionaire’s tax.
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New Yorkers agree: a millionaire’s tax is part of a…
March 31st, 2011
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