By Hunter Walker 12/05/11 5:47pm

C.R.E.A.M.

Senator Ruben Diaz (Photo: New York State Senate)

Senator Ruben Diaz on Tax Plan: 'Governor Cuomo Cannot Have His Cake And Eat It Too'

Governor Cuomo is pushing for an overhaul of the state tax code that he claims will “fairer distribution of the tax burden.” Senator Ruben Diaz, who is a member of the State Senate Finance Committee, told the Observer he doesn’t know the specifics of Governor Cuomo’s proposal yet, but no matter what, he won’t support any plan that doesn’t include a higher tax rate for wealthy New Yorkers. “He cannot have his cake and eat it too. He’s either for taxes for the millionaires or he’s against it,” Senator Diaz said. Read More

By David Freedlander 11/14/11 1:11pm

Revenues

on October 10, 2011 in New York City.

Cuomo On Why He Is Against Millionaire’s Tax: ‘Fairness’

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared on “The Capital Pressroom” this afternoon and he was pressed repeatedly by host Susan Arbetter about the extension of the so-called “Millionaire’s Tax.”

Mr. Cuomo has resisted the idea, and Ms. Arbetter asked him if there were ways to make the tax code more fair.

“There is no doubt—and I’ve talked about this–that fairness is what this is really all this is about,” Gov. Cuomo said, and the host quickly cut him off and suggested that keeping taxes high on upper income earners–she suggested even keeping the high rate for only those who earn $1 million or more–was a way to make taxes more fair. Read More

By Max Seddon 11/08/11 8:21pm

Kiddie Crusade

Grade schoolers protest in favor of the millionaire's tax.

Children March on Governor Cuomo’s Office

They may not be able to count up to 99, but the children who picketed outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Midtown office today were chanting “We are the 99 percent!” Approximately 300 protesters–-a good hundred of whom were between 5 and 10 years old–delivered the governor pro-”Millionaire’s Tax” petitions with several thousand signatures from New Yorkers attending Occupy Wall Street. Read More