Today, the New York Daily News published
an op-ed by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on the importance of the FY 2018
State Budget and continuing New York’s record of fiscal responsibility.
More information on the budget agreement is available here.
We’ve embraced the politics of unity
These have been trying times for our state
and nation. One of the lessons that could be taken from the 2016
election is that our values are all being questioned, blamed and
attacked. In recent months, we’ve seen a surge in bias-motivated
threats, harassment and acts of violence.
We heard the argument that the success of
the middle class is being directly impeded by our policies of diversity
and inclusion. We have seen the federal government attempt and fail to
take a wrecking ball to our health care system, and attempt and fail to
create a religious test for immigration. Soon, Congress will start
scrambling to cut taxes for the few at the expense of everyone else.
In New York, we say no. We have rejected the
politics of division and are forging our own path. With our agreement
on a $153 billion budget for 2017, New York State has issued a bold and
optimistic statement of our values. We are saying without equivocation:
New York is moving forward. This budget agreement invests in our middle
class, cuts taxes for working families, strengthens our economy and
expands opportunity for all. And it does so even while keeping the rate
of spending at an all-time low — held to 2% for the past seven years.
In a response to the most intense period of
domestic turbulence in half a century, and with the middle class feeling
increasingly ignored and frustrated, our budget makes clear that
progressive beliefs, far from being impediments to the middle class, are
in fact the foundation upon which the middle class was built in the
first place, and on which it will grow stronger.
Click here for the full commentary.
Source: Press Office, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
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