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Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel |
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Posted by Q4 on Mon Aug 17 15:10:09 2015, in response to Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Aug 17 14:15:46 2015. The State Senate had tried for years to have the original Commuter Tax Law which was a tax on people who worked in NYC but did not live within the City Limits repealed. The State Assembly (Sheldon Silver) would never allow the measure onto the Assembly floor, let along bring it to a vote. However, one year, there were a few State Senate seats (I believe between 3-5, mostly in the Counties near NYC) that were previously held by Republicans that were up for grabs as the incumbents were not running. The Democrats saw this as an opportunity to grab both houses, so to curry favor with the upstate and LI voters, they passed the bill allowing the removal of the Commuter Tax and Governor Pataki signed it into law.Of course, the plan failed as the Republicans still won the seats and maintained control of the Senate at that time. |
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