New York state budget slashes education, health care and taxes on the rich

[Hannah Bell]

Summary of the new budget:

Education:

The state budget for education is cut by $1.3 billion... 18,000 to 20,000 teachers vulnerable to layoff... CUNY senior & community colleges lose $103.8 million... SUNY loses $100 million bringingtotal cuts to SUNY over the past two-and-a-half years to nearly $700 million -- about one-third of its operating budget.

Health:

State spending on health care reduced by $2.8 billion, plus loss of about $2 billion in Medicaid matching funds from the federal government...

State Workers:

In addition to layoffs resulting from above cuts, Cuomo demands additional savings of $450 million from union contracts & says he'll lay off state workers if he doesn't get them...

Rich people/business:

Tax incentives, “regulatory relief,” and financial giveaways for business... The so-called "millionaires tax," a 2009 surcharge on incomes over $200K enacted during the financial crisis, will sunset at the end of 2011. Cuomo refused to renew it & it is not in the new budget.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/nybu-a12.shtml


This is the great stuff the "new democrats" are giving us.

[sakabatou]

1. Screw the poor and middle class! Screw the kids!

It's the rich that need help!

:sarcasm:

[dkf]

2. Doesn't NY have the highest taxes of all the states?

Even after this I think they may still be number one.

[eilen]

3. I think NY is the highest taxed.

Between state incomes taxes, sales taxes and property taxes.... they then have rigged everything else with a surcharge or fee--we are unduly taxed for what we receive. The cities/boroughs downstate also have resident and worker income taxes.

Plus we are a donor state on the Federal end.