Governor Spitzer’s Budget Roundup
January 23, 2008
Buffalo News
ALBANY — Faced with a huge deficit, Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer proposed a state budget Tuesday that grows at more than the rate of inflation, raises taxes and fees on everything from insurance companies to car owners, and calls for cuts in the growth of spending on health care and funding for high-needs schools.
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Times Union
ALBANY — Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Tuesday proposed spending $124.3 billion next year with hundreds of millions of dollars in speculative revenues and dozens of new fees that will cost motorists, health insurance customers and small businesses.
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New York Sun
Against the backdrop of national economic turmoil, Governor Spitzer’s second executive budget is triggering a backlash from a wide circle of powerful critics, among them the state’s legislative leaders, businesses, fiscal groups, education activists, and the Catholic Church.
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New York Times
ALBANY — Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Tuesday proposed an array of taxes and fees and almost $1 billion in health care cuts, and scaled back plans for new education aid and property tax relief, in an effort to close a budget deficit estimated at $4.4 billion.
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Poughkeepsie Journal
Increases in aid for local schools in the governor’s proposed 2008-09 budget fall below the statewide average.
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Newsday
Gov. Eliot Spitzer is expected to recommend in his budget message Tuesday that all pay and benefits for more than 130 commissioners who oversee special districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties be eliminated, county and state officials said Monday.
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NY Post
Despite his pledge not to raise taxes, Gov. Spitzer yesterday proposed a record $124.3 billion budget that relies heavily on new taxes and fees targeting everyone from drivers to online shoppers and users of illegal drugs.
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NY Daily News
Gov. Spitzer made some of the tough choices necessary to fashion a fair, balanced state budget, but probably not all of them. He and the Legislature have much more work to do.
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Daily Freeman
CHARGING that Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s proposed $124.3 billion state budget for 2008-09 is balanced on the backs of the middle class, state legislators from the Hudson Valley pledged on Tuesday that they will fight to restore promises made in Spitzer’s first budget a year ago.
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