“These certainly sound like the right goals for state tax policy. Much of what he’s proposing is a natural next step beyond what Cuomo has done,” said E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for New York State Policy. Read More
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New York City’s public school custodians were paid an average of $109,467 in fiscal 2014, making them the city’s highest-paid group of municipal employees last year, according to newly released payroll data posted today at SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. Read More
Empire Center President E.J. McMahon joined John Gambling to talk about Mayor de Blasio's plan to roll back Bloomberg-era savings on student transportation. Read More
“It’s as shameless a political ploy as we have ever seen,” said E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More
A former state tax commissioner who sat on both tax policy commissions convened last year by Governor Andrew Cuomo said it would be “a real challenge” for state officials to let New York's “millionaires' tax” expire on schedule at the end of 2017. Read More
The Empire Center, a nonpartisan think tank in New York, released a report today suggesting that New York has lagged behind the rest of the nation in making new millionaires. Read More
“What makes this industry more special than any industry that would invest here if you paid them to do it?” said E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for New York State Policy in Albany, which opposes government subsidies. “The difference is, well, it’s high-profile and it’s really glamorous. And oh, incidentally, it’s run by people who are really savvy, generous political givers too.” Read More
E.J. McMahon sat down with Nick Reisman to discuss the Empire Center's finding that New York had created new millionaires at the slowest rate in the nation between 2011 and 2012. Read More