Tea Party-backed GOP governor hopeful Carl Paladino fighting for $1.4 million tax break

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BY Greg B. Smith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, September 20th 2010,

Anti-big government gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is fighting to hold on to a $1.4 million tax break for a company that created only one job and put back into the economy less than it took out.

In a last-minute bid to keep that lucrative government subsidy, records show he overstated the worth of the company that got the break by including properties he'd already sold off.

The millionaire Buffalo businessman, who last week became his party's candidate for governor, has shaped much of his Tea Party message by railing against government spending and vowing Draconian bureaucratic bloodletting.

At the same time, he's received millions of dollars in tax breaks over the years, mostly as payback for investing in distressed properties in and around his native Buffalo, where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the economy has long been in a free fall.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/20/2010-09-20_huge_tax_break_fits_carl_to_a_tea_big_govt_foe_fights_for_14m_windfall.html

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1. Proof Positive

That Tea Baggers are DUMB. They make a carrot look like a Rhodes Scholar!!!

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2. Hypocrisy, bigotry and bestiality. How very Republican. n/t

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3. This guy is loonier than most & New Yorkers should be VERY wary of him

I saw him interviewed on CNN. He has this great idea of using old prisons & hospitals owned by the state, renovating them & using them as "Dignity Centers". He would mandate that all welfare recipients be "retrained" in these facilities in a variety of subjects including personal hygiene ("brushing your teeth twice per day"). Only those people unable to leave home for a few weeks would be exempted, yet required to take "day classes" near home.

This guy is freakin' certifiable.

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4. Paladino's explanation: That was then

It won't matter to his followers, who care only about what he's saying now, and right now he's singing from the right page of the hymnal. Doesn't matter what tune he was singing before, and isn't it just like the librul media to try to smear a guy by using his past words and deeds against him?

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5. K & R

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