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On April 7, 2021, the Legislature passed and sent to the Governor the bills constituting the 2021-22 budget legislation (the Budget ). New York’s lawmakers had exhibited considerable restraint in the recent past, generally keeping spending increases and thus revenue increases at about the level of inflation. But pent-up spending demand, the COVID pandemic, one-party control of the Senate and Assembly, and a fiscally-conservative Executive perceived as politically weakened, resulted in lawmakers muzzling spending restraint, at least for the next few years. And with the spending increases comes a panoply of revenue-raisers which, given the already unprecedented exodus of wealthy taxpayers from New York over the past year, makes one wonder who will be left to pay such taxes!