TAXES Republican Nick Spano follows George Bush
on Fiscal Irresponsibility and passing billions in unfunded
mandates.
GEORGE BUSH
NICK SPANO
• Tax Cuts for
Wealthy : The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center
recently calculated that most of the tax cuts-53%
to be exact-went to the highest-earning 10% of US
individuals and families.
• Tax Cuts for
Large Corporations : Spano refused to support
an effort to close corporate tax loopholes which would
have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, allowing
us to lower tax rates for small businesses (MTA S.7471
– 2004).
• Bush and his
Republican colleagues are to blame for large unfunded
mandates at the federal level.
• Spano and his
Republican colleagues are to blame for large unfunded
mandates at the state level : The state has
passed more than $2.5 billion in unfunded mandates
during Spano’s tenure in Medicaid alone.
• Fiscally Irresponsible
: Bush’s tax plan resulted in turning record
national surpluses into record national debt.
• Fiscally Irresponsible
: Nick Spano and the fiscally irresponsible Republicans
in Albany have doubled the state budget in the past
10 years, driving up the debt and causing our property
taxes to skyrocket.