If the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is right, Governor David Paterson's economic and fiscal projections for New York State are not gloomy enough. The CBO expects higher unemployment and a somewhat slower recovery than Paterson's budget has pro Read More
An anonymous Paterson Administration official is in today's Albany Times Union as predicting that the governor's budget proposal would include an “aggressive set of cuts” that will leave “blood in the streets.” Maybe he meant ke Read More
As shown below, the highest-earning 1 percent of taxpayers (those with incomes above $750,000 or so as of 2007) accounted for nearly 40 percent of New York's total state income tax liability last year -- up from around 27 percent in the mid-1990s. � Read More
The Post's Fred Dicker today that Paterson administration budget officials now believe New York State's 2008-09 budget gap will be in the neighborhood of $7 billion, up from a projected $5.5 billion in the wake of the Legislature's August s Read More
Almost all of can be traced to falling tax receipts. But rising spending will represent a growing share of the problem over the next three years. In fact, more than one-third of the projected growth in next year's gap, and over half the Read More
Given , it should come as no surprise that the state's is forecasting a $2.1 billion deficit for the current fiscal year. But some of the financial details released by the Division of the Budget (DOB) today are getting even more worrisome. Read More
Governor Paterson the means in the current fiscal year, which is less than two months old. In other words, the short-term outlook may now be as lousy as Read More
One of Albany's senior State Capitol correspondents vacations in Flat Rock, North Carolina, and Read More