Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Office
Deals to raise taxes on New York’s millionaires and companies could send both fleeing the state, business leaders and fiscal experts warn unless Washington steps in and restores some old deductions.
Even as legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo had yet to officially seal an agreement on New York’s second straight pandemic budget, all indicators pointed to the state levying the country’s biggest income tax on the wealthy.
The $4 billion-plus income tax increase would mark at least a partial victory for progressive Democrats, who argued that well-heeled New Yorkers and companies that prospered during the pandemic should foot a bigger share of the tab for increased spending to help those staggered by the crisis.
Vaccine superchargeâ for NY to utilize Community Health Centers to administer vaccines
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A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as the country launches its inoculation campaign at the Tokyo Medical Center in Tokyo on February 17, 2021.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WKBW) â New York Senator Chuck Schumer announced vaccine supercharge for New York Thursday.
Schumer says a huge influx of COVID-19 vaccines from the federal government are on the way as well as an expansion of federally-funded vaccine sites that will utilize Community Health Centers (CHCs) to administer vaccines.