WEEKLY EXTENDERS ARE THE BEST IDEA ALBANY HAS HAD IN YEARS
Urges Progressive Democrats to Keep It Up — Ideally for the Next 52 Weeks
Recently the Party issued the following statement congratulating Governor Kathy Hochul and the Democrat-controlled Legislature on what he called “the single most fiscally responsible act of their careers” — their inability to pass a state budget:
On behalf of New York’s beleaguered taxpayers, I want to sincerely thank the Governor and the Legislature for their continued failure to agree on a budget. Frankly, we had no idea they had it in them.
For weeks now, Albany has been funding state government through weekly extenders based on last year’s spending levels. Let me be the first to say: this is the plan. Don’t change a thing. We are begging you.
Under Governor Hochul, state spending has exploded by more than 40 percent. The extenders, by contrast, are a kind of methadone — keeping the patient alive at last year’s dosage while the people who caused the addiction argue about how much more to inject.
It is a rare and beautiful thing when a government’s incompetence accidentally aligns with the public interest. Like a stopped clock, Albany is right — twice a day, or in this case, once a week, every week, for as long as they can manage it.
The Conservative Party hereby formally requests that the Democrat-run Legislature continue doing absolutely nothing. You’re better at it than anything else you’ve tried. The people of New York are, for once, getting exactly the government they’re paying for — last year’s government, at last year’s prices. In this state that’s a bargain.
BOB SMULLIN LANDS KEY SUPPORT
In the critical North Country congressional race, Assemblyman Robert Smullin has earned key support from New York’s GOP congressional delegation. Smullin, who is the official designee of the Conservative Party and the endorsed candidate of the GOP, already has the endorsements of hundreds of local elected officials in the 15-county district.
The congressional support of both current and former New York members (see invite host committee below) will be front and center at a fundraiser being held for retired Marine Colonel Smullin on April 29th at the Capitol Hill Club, adjoining the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee offices in Washington.
Adding to the host committee are retired Marine Lt. General Congressman Jack Bergman and retired Air Force Colonel Congressman August Pfluger. Several United States Senators are expected to join me and Ed Cox at the event.
Bob Smullin will make an excellent candidate for Congress. I believe I speak for all party members when I say we are proud to have him on the Conservative Party line in November.
Tax Freedom Day
The organization that for many years published Tax Freedom Day no longer exists. Its efforts to determine, by state, an estimate of when residents had worked for no other purpose except to pay their taxes was a useful tool to measure how burdensome taxes were in each state.
New York was consistently one of the worst, often weeks after the national average.
Despite New York State and New York City’s focus on increasing our tax burden, the federal tax cuts have far outweighed these local counterefforts and would have certainly shortened that Tax Freedom Day for all Americans, but in particular for New Yorkers due to the reemergence of the SALT deduction, coupled with the renewal of the AMT exclusion for almost all taxpayers.
Seniors did even better, with a new Social Security federal tax credit that, for the overwhelming majority, allows for an 80% Social Security tax exclusion.
And there were many other provisions, from overtime to tip wages.
Most Americans, regardless of income, should find quite a few extra dollars in their pockets in 2026 to spend on anything they like.
In New York State, all of the members of our Congressional Delegation, not only supported the changes, but championed the efforts to help reduce our tax burden. Thank you.
WEEKLY EXTENDERS ARE THE BEST IDEA ALBANY HAS HAD IN YEARS
Urges Progressive Democrats to Keep It Up — Ideally for the Next 52 Weeks
Recently the Party issued the following statement congratulating Governor Kathy Hochul and the Democrat-controlled Legislature on what he called “the single most fiscally responsible act of their careers” — their inability to pass a state budget:
On behalf of New York’s beleaguered taxpayers, I want to sincerely thank the Governor and the Legislature for their continued failure to agree on a budget. Frankly, we had no idea they had it in them.
For weeks now, Albany has been funding state government through weekly extenders based on last year’s spending levels. Let me be the first to say: this is the plan. Don’t change a thing. We are begging you.
Under Governor Hochul, state spending has exploded by more than 40 percent. The extenders, by contrast, are a kind of methadone — keeping the patient alive at last year’s dosage while the people who caused the addiction argue about how much more to inject.
It is a rare and beautiful thing when a government’s incompetence accidentally aligns with the public interest. Like a stopped clock, Albany is right — twice a day, or in this case, once a week, every week, for as long as they can manage it.
The Conservative Party hereby formally requests that the Democrat-run Legislature continue doing absolutely nothing. You’re better at it than anything else you’ve tried. The people of New York are, for once, getting exactly the government they’re paying for — last year’s government, at last year’s prices. In this state that’s a bargain.
BOB SMULLIN LANDS KEY SUPPORT
In the critical North Country congressional race, Assemblyman Robert Smullin has earned key support from New York’s GOP congressional delegation. Smullin, who is the official designee of the Conservative Party and the endorsed candidate of the GOP, already has the endorsements of hundreds of local elected officials in the 15-county district.
The congressional support of both current and former New York members (see invite host committee below) will be front and center at a fundraiser being held for retired Marine Colonel Smullin on April 29th at the Capitol Hill Club, adjoining the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee offices in Washington.
Adding to the host committee are retired Marine Lt. General Congressman Jack Bergman and retired Air Force Colonel Congressman August Pfluger. Several United States Senators are expected to join me and Ed Cox at the event.
Bob Smullin will make an excellent candidate for Congress. I believe I speak for all party members when I say we are proud to have him on the Conservative Party line in November.
Tax Freedom Day
The organization that for many years published Tax Freedom Day no longer exists. Its efforts to determine, by state, an estimate of when residents had worked for no other purpose except to pay their taxes was a useful tool to measure how burdensome taxes were in each state.
New York was consistently one of the worst, often weeks after the national average.
Despite New York State and New York City’s focus on increasing our tax burden, the federal tax cuts have far outweighed these local counterefforts and would have certainly shortened that Tax Freedom Day for all Americans, but in particular for New Yorkers due to the reemergence of the SALT deduction, coupled with the renewal of the AMT exclusion for almost all taxpayers.
Seniors did even better, with a new Social Security federal tax credit that, for the overwhelming majority, allows for an 80% Social Security tax exclusion.
And there were many other provisions, from overtime to tip wages.
Most Americans, regardless of income, should find quite a few extra dollars in their pockets in 2026 to spend on anything they like.
In New York State, all of the members of our Congressional Delegation, not only supported the changes, but championed the efforts to help reduce our tax burden. Thank you.