Senate GOP gives thumbs-down to millionaires tax extension
A Wednesday-morning meeting of the state Senate’s Republican majority conference gave a thumbs-down to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed three-year extension of the “millionaires tax” on the state’s top earners, which is slated to sunset at the end of the year.
“We just had a brief conference, went over the budget, and the opinion of our members is that they don’t like it at all,” said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a Q&A that followed his appearance at a rally of charter school supporters in the well of the Legislative Office Building.
Flanagan told reporters that Senate staff had only received the budget bills Tuesday night at 8 p.m. (“I’m not being critical — that’s just when we got ’em”) — about the same time Cuomo was briefing reporters about the plan at the Executive Mansion. He also noted that school aid runs hadn’t been released yet. (The data, however, was out last night.)
“The education proposals — the details are going to be extremely important,” he said.
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