Spitzer's new plan.

[amazed and ashamed]

This idiot just doesn't get it.
$738 million in proposed new taxes and fees, though there is no broadly based income tax increase. Among the new measures were modest increases in everything from taxes on gasoline and malt liquor to increases in fees the state charges for home purchases above $175,000 and steps aimed at increases in taxes paid by out-of-state residents who work or do business in New York.
MODEST INCREASE in gas tax....how about lowering the tax to get inline with the rest of the country.
Increasing the tax on malt liquor is just a tax on the poor...
Increase fees for homes over 175.000, is another tax on the middle class.
Further, the governor called for an increase of nearly 1 percent in the state workforce, bringing the number of workers over 200,000.
A plan to reclassify Health Maintenance Organizations so they are taxed as insurers, a move that will cost H.M.O.’s more than $200 million a year and presumably be passed on to patients.

Someone please tell Eliot to stop trying to help us before he drives the rest of the people out of this state.

If there has ever been a time in the history of mankind that someone needs to be beaten and tossed into the Hudson River, its now!

[sickofit]

Spitzer 's new bright idea of letting any successful graduate of the Syracuse City School District attend any state college or university for free, under a pilot program included in his proposed budget package.

The state would pay all tuition and fees for city graduates who met middle school Regents standards to attend any State University of New York school or the City University of New York.

If I had a student in school outside of his "selected area" I'd sue the living crap out of this Idiot and the State of NY if they allow this. This is discrimination in the purest form.

Free tuition for Doctors, higher taxes on Gas, cuts in medical coverage to the elderly, reduced funds for the Justice system, free college for select groups.....and he is just starting.

The plan is part of an even broader partnership that would offer city students a similar tuition-free deal at Syracuse University and two dozen other private universities, Syracuse School Superintendent Dan Lowengard said.
SU is a private school and all tuition for these kids will come out of our pockets.

If this stupid bastard had been elected 100 years ago he'd of been lynched on the steps of the state capitol.

The middle class gets it stuck in their ass again by the SOB Eliot Spitzer.

[ghostryder]

It's just the above posts and his many other "bright" ideas that are going to make him (Gov. Spitz) a one term wonder. Just because you're an A.G. doesn't always qualify you to be Governor. He already tarnished Hillary's plan to become President (with his ingenious drivers' licencese for Illegal aliens plan) So at least Spitzer's good for something. He'll keep Hillary from becoming President. Thank you Gov. Spitzer.

[whatthe]

Gov. Eliot Spitzer has agreed to a pay raise for legislators, even as he has called for cuts elsewhere to help close a $4.4 billion deficit.
The pay for the state’s 212 legislators is now the third-highest in the nation. Their base salary is $79,500, but they can earn more than $100,000 with various bonuses for committee or leadership posts.
A conservative estimate would put the pay increase for lawmakers, at more than $4 million a year.

Hey Eliot.......thanks again.

[sigh]

ghostryder said:

It's just the above posts and his many other "bright" ideas that are going to make him (Gov. Spitz) a one term wonder.

You got that right. One term and he's out.

[MooMoo]

WON'T HAPPEN!!!!

[Marty]

You say it won't happen. What won't happen? Spitzer won't be out after one term, or his plan won't go through?

[MooMoo]

Marty said:

You say it won't happen. What won't happen? Spitzer won't be out after one term, or his plan won't go through?

I WAS SAYING HE WON'T BE OUT AFTER ONE TERM! ;D

[amazed and ashamed]

Dozens of cold-blooded killers who repeatedly begged to be released have in the last year gotten their wish in record numbers.

In all, 235 violent felons, including 215 convicted murderers, have been released by the state parole board in the first year of Gov. Spitzer's administration, records show. That's 58% more than the 148 violent felons paroled in 2006, the last year of Gov. Pataki's tenure.

Some were locked away for crimes so heinous that previous state Parole Boards refused to set them free up to five times before their luck changed under the Spitzer administration, a Daily News analysis has found.

The Spitzer administration at first refused to reveal the number of convicted murderers released on parole last year. After The News used a list of inmates suing the state to find 70 inmates convicted of murder in N.Y.C., the administration released the whole list. Among them:
*
College student Jose Parmes was 27 in 1981 when he hurled his 10-month-old daughter out a sixth-floor window after fatally stabbing girlfriend Iris Torres, 28, and cutting off her left ear. Parmes jumped out the same window. His daughter landed on a second-floor fire escape and survived. Parmes, now 54, got 16 years to life in 1982. He was released in May after being denied parole four times.
* Frank DiChiara was 35 when he fatally shot 13-year-old Germania Zurlo in February 1978. She'd arrived home from religious instruction to find him rifling through her Brooklyn apartment. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1979 and released in September after twice being denied parole. He's 65.
* Louis Mortillaro was a 28-year-old bank teller when he went to the Brooklyn home of his estranged wife, Doreen, in 1983 and plunged a knife into her neck, face and back as the couple's 11-month-old daughter watched from a playpen. Detectives found Mortillaro drinking in a bar blocks from the crime scene. Mortillaro, 49, was freed in November.

In 2006, the last year of the Pataki administration, the parole rate for violent felons was 12%. In the first year of the Spitzer administration, it was 18%.

Sickening!!!!!!!!

[ghostryder]

LOL! Now he want to tax your on-line purchases! You idiots voted him in here's whatcha got!
Funny how he didn't mention this when he was campagining for governor. But I'm sure this will go over as good as his giving driver's liscensce's to Illegal Aliens. Way to go Dems! Just vote Hill in and it'll get twice as worse. Keep those Dems coming... they'll mess it up so bad for us in the future they'll never be voted in again. So let's get this over and done with.

[SOOOOOOO]

This suppose be soon a nationwide law soon, except for NH and other states that don't have state taxes.