{"id":176234,"date":"2020-08-01T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/01\/rat-faced-andy-cuomo-doing-it-again\/"},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:58:00","slug":"rat-faced-andy-cuomo-doing-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/01\/rat-faced-andy-cuomo-doing-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rat Faced Andy” Cuomo Doing it Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York state is in the midst of a revenue crisis because of the pandemic, and Andrew Cuomo is the sole roadblock to raising any revenue at all from the hyper-rich<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a> of New York has stood firm against intensifying pressure to avert massive budget cuts by raising taxes on the many billionaires who live in his state. <\/p>\n

As that campaign to tax billionaires received a recent boost from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York\u2019s Democratic state legislative leaders<\/a>, Cuomo has insisted that he fears that the tax initiative will prompt the super-rich to leave the state. On Wednesday, he doubled down, warning<\/a> that if the state tried to balance its budget through billionaire tax hikes \u201cyou\u2019d have no billionaires left\u201d. <\/p>\n

But in defending billionaires, Cuomo is protecting a group of his most important financial boosters. More than a third of New York\u2019s billionaires have funneled cash to Cuomo\u2019s political machine, according to a Too Much Information<\/a> review of campaign finance data and the Forbes billionaire list. <\/p>\n

New York<\/a> disclosure records show that 43 of New York\u2019s 118 billionaire families have donated money to Cuomo\u2019s campaigns and the state Democratic party committee he controls. In all, those billionaires and their family members have delivered more than $8m to Cuomo\u2019s political apparatus since his first gubernatorial campaign. That includes large donations from billionaires in the last few weeks as Cuomo has fought to stop tax hikes on billionaires.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is remarkable just how completely one politician completely encapsulates what is wrong with both the Democratic Party and US politics in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York state is in the midst of a revenue crisis because of the pandemic, and Andrew Cuomo is the sole roadblock to raising any revenue at all from the hyper-rich: Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has stood firm against intensifying pressure to avert massive budget cuts by raising taxes on the many billionaires …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446,368,364,374],"class_list":["post-176234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-budget","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}