ALBANYNew York's business community, and its small businesses in particular,
are increasingly unable to cope with health insurance costs that are skyrocketing
in part of state policies set in Albany, Business Council President Daniel
B. Walsh told state Legislators in testimony today
New
York has the second largest budget deficit in the country
but is not considering significant spending cuts to meet its
challenge, a new analysis shows.
In
contrast, of the states with the 10 largest deficits, seven
are considering or have enacted major spending cuts, according
to the study, which is a joint effort of the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Manhattan Institute
Even
after high-profile rallies and marches in Albany and countless
print and TV ads, tax-and-spend advocates have acknowledged
the effectiveness of The Business Council's "electronic protest"
against higher taxes by mounting a similar campaign in favor
of higher taxes and more government spending
ALBANYA proposed replacement cement plant in Columbia County would
bring important economic and environmental benefits to the region and should
be approved by the state, Business Council President Daniel B. Walsh has told
Governor Pataki.
"We support this project because it represents the type of reinvestment in
manufacturing that New York should welcome and encourage," Walsh said in a
March 19 letter to Governor Pataki
A
coalition of New York health-care providers has filed suit
in federal court urging the court to overturn the state's
so-called labor neutrality law.
The
health-care coalition argued that the law, which it dubbed
"the Employer Gag Law," should be overturned on two grounds:
It violates employers' free speech rights under the First
Amendment to the U
Tax
increases being aggressively promoted by unions would undermine
New York's business climate and threaten the foundations of
the state's free-market economy, a key New York State political
leader has warned state lawmakers
The
'New Jersey Plan' of tax increases that public-employee unions
and other advocates are promoting as "closing corporate loopholes"
is, in fact, "a virtual copy of the disaster that New Jersey
inflicted on itself last summer," a new report on New York's
state budget debate concludes
ALBANYNew
Jersey's decision to raise corporate taxes last year had great economic effect-for
New York. That's why New York's state lawmakers must reject the union-driven
"New Jersey Plan" to raise state taxes, Business Council President Daniel
B. Walsh has warned state lawmakers
RE: Say it ain't so! We don't want to raise business taxes and turn New York into New Jersey North.
Last summer, New Jersey did something great—for New York!
The Governor and Legislature in our neighboring state tried to deal with their budget problems by enacting a huge increase in their corporate taxes
New
York State cannot return to a past in which high taxes turned
the state into the nation's "greatest exporter of jobs," Senate
Majority Leader Joseph Bruno told small business proprietors
March 26 at The Business Council's annual Small Business Day
in Albany