Andrew Cuomo
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Sometimes a bad idea is a bad idea, no matter how you package it. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying again, after his $600 million opioid tax was slapped down in December by an Obama appointed federal judge.
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While President Trump called for unity and cooperation in his 2019 State of the Union address, the views of the audience showed a sharp and bitter divide, especially on issues affecting the health and medical care of Americans.
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Environment/Energy
State And Local Governments Pledge To Shackle Economies Under Paris Agreement’s Terms
by Isaac Orr July 31, 2017In an open letter to the international community, titled “We Are Still In,” more than 1,200 officials have come out in support of voluntarily continuing the terms of the Paris climate accord.
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Environment/Energy
Bottom-Up Cronyism – No Better Than Top-Down Cronyism
by Seton Motley June 30, 2017Government cutting special deals for special friends – is always obnoxious, obnoxiously bad policy.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) may figure that becoming the first governor to champion and sign “free four-year college” legislation will give him a campaign slogan sure to appeal to fans of the socialist heartthrob of the 2016 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, if Cuomo decides to run in 2020.
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Environment/Energy
As Always Everywhere, ‘Green Energy’ Is Killing New York’s Economy
by Seton Motley May 7, 2017New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appears to loathe actual energy. You know, oil, gas, coal, etc. The sources of energy that actually produce energy – cheaply and efficiently.
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Politics
Finally, FINALLY, a Democrat Breaks Lockstep Unity Ranks with the Party
by Seton Motley March 10, 2017Give Democrats their due – they don’t deviate from the Party line. No matter how absurd the things they’re defending are, no matter how insane they look doing it, no matter how much damage they incur in doing it – they do all of it together.
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Education
Cuomo’s ‘Free’ College Proposal Nothing More Than a Welfare Program for the Upper Middle Class
by Timothy Benson February 6, 2017Free college sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Like all things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it’s too good to be true.
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Environment/EnergyHealth Care
‘Repeal And Replace’: It’s For Much More Than Just Awful Obamacare
by Seton Motley January 14, 2017“Repeal and Replace” is currently all the rage in Washington, D.C. As the newly ensconced Republican trinity (President, Senate and House) work to excavate We the People from the awfulness that is Obamacare.
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Environment/Energy
A Tale Of Two Governors: Massive Cronyism And Other Terrible Policy
by Seton Motley December 15, 2016One of the heights of lowness that government cronyism has reached is a company managing to so master the favoritism processes, they get multiple states to simultaneously fill its trough.
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EconomicsGovernmentPolitics
New York’s Government Needs To (Re)Learn: You Can’t Spend Your Way To Prosperity
by Seton Motley November 10, 2016President Barack Obama has doubled the national debt – from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. He’s added more debt than all of his forty-three presidential predecessors combined.
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Environment/Energy
The Buffalo Billion Fraud and Bribery Scheme: Corruption and Pay-to-Play, a Symbol of Everything They’re Doing
by Marita Noon September 26, 2016When New York’s Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo gushed over SolarCity’s new solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York, the audience, likely, didn’t grasp the recently-revealed meaning of his words: “It is such a metaphor—a symbol of everything we’re doing.”