Skelos Wants Property Tax Cap Vote Friday
State Senate Leader Dean Skelos just announced he’s bringing lawmakers in his house back to Albany this Friday to pass a property tax cap bill.
It’s a measure that Skelos notes is favored by Democratic Governor David Paterson.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said earlier that he opposed capping property taxes because that could leave school districts, which rely on property taxes, unable to pay their bills.
Which puts Silver in a familiar role of opposing the governor and State Senate leader. Just like old times.
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Someone needs to follow up on this. The State Senate told Newsday that as part of the deal, the state would pick up part of the pension costs of school districts.
Does that mean the state would use taxes collected in New York City to pay for teacher pensions outside, but not inside, the city?
Even if the city were included, it has only one-third of the state's school employees with 45% of the state's people and an even greater share of the state's personal income tax payments. So once again people inside New York City would be taxed to pay to keep taxes down in high spending areas outside New York City.
Imagine a proposal to have the state, which includes taxpayers in the rest of the state, pick up pensions for police or transit workers, both of which are concentrated in the city. Would anyone in the rest of the state go along? Yet there is deal after deal like this at the city's expense.
And it hasn't even been written about yet. Ask some questions, starting with Mr. Padavan, etc.