Gothamist: Paterson Considers Another Emergency Legislative Session

bclm

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:42:25 -0500

Please, the state schools in Texas (UT-Austin) and North Carolina (UNC-Chapel Hill) are better than any SUNY. People move to those states because they are more affordable and you don't get taxed to death. NY depends on Wall Street because only those businesses can afford to stay here.

NannyState

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:56:06 -0500

Albany relies so much on Wall Street because they already sucked Upstate dry. Think of it this way: a kid with good grades in New York can go to an excellent college or state university paid for by all these exorbitant taxes and then what? They leave to jobs in North Carolina or Texas because so few employers are left in their hometowns. In essence, our taxes subsidize the economies of these other states because they can spend less on their schools and still draw talent from places like NY State.

ides_of_march

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:29:27 -0500

"Paterson pointed out that 20% of NY State's revenue comes from Wall Street." I have to remember that the next time democrats keep whining the rich don't pay their fair share. I don't believe the government should bail out these big corporations but I'm also against taxing them to oblivion (or to NJ in this case) either.