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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Friday, February 18, 2005

NY's in a socialist state of mind!

Survey says: Tax the rich Americans

Survey says: Tax the rich Americans

By The Citizen staff report
A recent poll conducted by five New York legislators showed their constituents would support higher taxes on the wealthiest population to help pay for education.

Voters in all five districts strongly supported a new surcharge on incomes above $150,000, if the revenue was dedicated to providing additional aid to public schools.

The poll, which was presented Monday at the state legislative budget hearing on education funding, surveyed voter opinion in the districts of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Owen Johnson (R-Babylon), Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Herman "Denny" Farrell (D-Manhattan), the Senate Education Committee Chairman Stephen Saland (R-Poughkeepsie), Assembly Education Committee Chairman Steven Sanders (D-Manhattan) and Assemblyman Chris Ortloff (R-Plattsburgh).

More than 60 percent of the voters in the five districts said if the governor vetoed a new surcharge, they would support a legislative override.
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First, someone needs to teach The Citizen about federalism: the headline should properly read "Survey says: Tax the rich New York Staters".

That aside, is it any wonder no one wants to start a business here?! Mario Cuomo lives! (and NY State dies a little more!)

The Ponderosa

Friday, February 18, 2005

NY's in a socialist state of mind!

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