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Cuomo calls for Assembly to pass tax cap

The governor says it's "shocking" that the Assembly would think twice about passing the 2 percent property tax cap.
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The governor says it's "shocking" that the Assembly would think twice about passing the 2 percent property tax cap.

The governor is "ratcheting up the rhetoric" about his 2 percent tax cap proposal, writes Rick Karlin at Capitol Confidential, calling for the Assembly to pass the legislation that's already cleared the Senate:

“If you don’t pass a property tax cap I think you have dis-respected the people of the state of New York …There’s either a tax cap or there isn’t a tax cap,” he said, deriding what he termed the ‘Albanyspeak’ in which one house says they passed a bill while the other hasn’t.

The governor is getting some back up from the Business Council, which went live with a radio ad supporting the cap, yesterday.  Joseph Spector has the text of the ad at Vote Up! - here's the nut graph:

The highest property taxes in the country continue to kill our jobs. Businesses paid 44 percent of the property tax burden. Money that could have been spent creating jobs and improving our economy. That is why the Assembly must enact Gov. Cuomo’s two percent property tax cap. The State Senate has passed it. The Assembly must act.

Want to listen with your own ears?  Head over to the Business Council's website.

Meanwhile Nick Reisman reports at State of Politics that the Conservative Party is making hay out of the fact that the tax cap is stymied in the Democratically-led Assembly, releasing a statement urging passage of the bill. 

And Celeste Katz at Daily Politics has the governor saying that the cap is "so fundamentally sound" that it would be "shocking" that the Assembly is even thinking twice about the bill.

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