Since August of 2009, in my travels all across our state as Leader of the Assembly Republican Conference, I have been asking my fellow New Yorkers the following question: “Is... more »
27 days and counting – even less by the time this weekly legislative column is published – until New York’s April 1 fiscal deadline when the 2010-11 State Budget is due. With that looming... more »
On Wednesday, in accordance with State Finance Law, our Assembly Republican Conference publicly released its Consensus State Revenue Forecast, a comprehensive document that includes... more »
According to the Internal Revenue Service's official website, right around this time in 2009, it had already received approximately 56 million individual tax returns, which constituted a... more »
State government’s inexplicable decision to withhold taxpayer refunds will cause more financial pain to individuals and small businesses who were counting on... more »