If this doesn’t get the armchair activists away from their keyboards and into the streets, I don’t know what will. Among the many new taxes Governor Paterson is proposing is a tax on Internet porn. Okay, not just porn, but a tax on all Internet downloads. But honestly, what else is there that’s really worth downloading besides […]
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Albany Watch has a good roundup of editorial reaction to the three stooges’ farcical “emergency” budget meeting yesterday: The Albany Times-Union said it was a “showcase of New York dysfunction” and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos showed “New Yorkers exactly why he no longer deserves to be Senate majority leader.” But the New York Post’s
It boggles the mind that anyone who has read Ayn Rand would think that a federal bailout for spendthrift state governments is a good idea, much less dare to invoke her in arguing for such a bailout. Yet here we have the cognitive dissonance of Governor David Paterson’s testimony before Congress yesterday: Paterson cited Rand,
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According to Albany Watch, Governor David Paterson has vetoed 171 bills since June. The vetoes purportedly save New York taxpayers $531.7 million over the next two years. That’s not much compared to a $124 billion annual budget, but it’s a start. Keep those vetoes coming!
I know he hasn’t even officially assumed the governorship yet, so it’s way premature to judge him. Still, I just assumed I’d easily find a lot not to like about David Paterson, but honestly I’m having a very hard time of it. Turns out he supports reforming the Rockefeller drug laws, reining in trigger-happy cops, and
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A few random morning-after thoughts on the Spitzer scandal: As hinted at in yesterday’s post, I bought champagne for everyone at last night’s Manhattan Libertarian Party meeting to celebrate the downfall of The Sherriff of Wall Street. Really cheap champagne. You probably shouldn’t expect much from a $15 bottle of Russian bubbly, but it was
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