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Governor Cuomo, Pay Your Fair Share!
Governor Cuomo, Pay Your Fair Share!

 

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New Yorkers pay the highest property taxes in America.  And we feel it.


Across this state, thousands of senior citizens have had to go back to work to pay those taxes.


Young people have been shut out of buying homes.


And small business have closed because of property taxes, putting more people out of work.


Property taxes are a key reason why so many New Yorkers are packing up and moving out of state -- 400,000 of them under Governor Cuomo.


It is especially disturbing then to learn that Mr. Cuomo is not and has not been paying his fair share of property taxes the entire time he's been governor.  


More than that, it looks like Mr. Cuomo has intentionally been evading his fair share of property taxes by not reporting major renovations to his home as required by law.  Those renovations have even appeared in national news magazines.


Now, Mr. Cuomo is barring his town tax assessor for entering his home. He won't let the assessor in to see the work that was done.


Does that sound on the level to you?  It doesn't to me.   


New Yorkers are sick of two sets of rules, one for Albany politicians and one for them.  


You and I are paying our fair share of taxes, and it's breaking our backs.  


Why hasn't Governor Cuomo been paying his?  


Open the door, Governor Cuomo.  Let the inspector in. I thought you were going to bring transparency to this state...


  

 

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