WHAT'S ON OFFER RIGHT NOW IN ALBANY?

A porous, puny CAP on school tax levies that would only add to our already ruinous taxes ... and would not selectively cut outrageous waste and bureaucratic pile-ons.

An anti-family, anti-upstate, callous-to-veterans, pay-upfront-and-get-some-back-later (maybe), complicated (but cheap for the state) pair of circuit-breaker bills (Galef/Little) masquerading as relief.

Some rumors of maybe stopping the state — don't even mention the feds — from dumping more of their responsibilities on counties and local governments, e.g. property taxes.

Absolutely nothing, nada, zilch to stop more of the taxable properties in the state from becoming tax-exempt. Roughly one-third of all properties are now off the tax rolls, and you are paying the price of legislators' largesse to favored interests.

Only one mention (SHHHHH!) of the real, constitutional solution to the raging ruin of homeowners — a slight Senate nod to a state takeover of education funding ... because it might cost the state something. Too bad it now costs homeowners EVERYTHING!

WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION ON THE TAXPAYERS' NO. 1 PRIORITY, ABOLISHING CONFISCATORY PROPERTY TAXES?

 

 

(sound of crickets, while wind whistles through a ghost town)

 

 

WHAT ARE WE (taxnightmare.org) DOING?

Gathering steam, making strong alliances, conceptualizing our solutions (not any of the tiny ones on offer) and planning the steps we are about to take to enforce our demands ... immediately.

Albany can do it the easy way or Albany can do it the hard way, but don't insult us with the tiny handouts you are presently arguing over for desperate taxpayers.

Some courageous public servants need to break out of the lumbering pack because — as usual — this legislative session has been a lot of sound and fury signifying

... all together now ...

NOTHING!