Statement from Senator Fred Akshar:
This fiscal year, New York has a serious budgetary challenge to face, but our adversary is not the federal government or mother nature. It cannot be found in a courtroom or in an atmospheric current, but in the mirror. Our enemy is our own relentless addiction to tax-and-spend policies.
Make no mistake, we cannot sue our way to a balanced budget and we cannot tax our way into a better business climate. If we do not put our state on a new path toward affordability for everyday New Yorkers, their families and their businesses, we will only continue to repel residents rather than attract them. We will only see revenues continue to fall with the mass exodus of residents who simply can’t afford their state government.
I stand ready to work with the Governor and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to help our government look within. We can and we must get our spending under control without sacrificing valuable programs. We can and we must lighten the tax and regulatory burdens our state government places on residents and businesses call New York home.
