{"id":176753,"date":"2020-03-29T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/29\/rat-faced-andy-cuomo-strikes-again\/"},"modified":"2020-03-29T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:49:00","slug":"rat-faced-andy-cuomo-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/29\/rat-faced-andy-cuomo-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rat Faced Andy&#8221; Cuomo Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tax pied-a-terres.<br \/>Tax private jets.<br \/>Tax yachts.<br \/>Tax stock transfers and buybacks.<br \/>Tax commercial vacancies.<br \/>Tax carried interest.<\/p>\n<p>We need government in New York more than ever. Now is not the time to starve it. Tax the super-wealthy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BudgetJustice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BudgetJustice<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Brad Hoylman (@bradhoylman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradhoylman\/status\/1243633656909922305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In response to a the pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/new-york-gov-cuomo-panel-proposes-medicaid-cuts-amid-coronavirus-crisis\/\">Andrew Cuomo is proposing cuts to the state Medicaid program<\/a>, because he has spent his <b>ENTIRE<\/b> time in office cutting taxes on rich people, so the only solution to a hole blown in the state budget is to f%$# the poors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A panel appointed by New York governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled on Thursday its plan to reduce the state\u2019s Medicaid spending by some $400 million over the next year. The plan will now go to the state legislature for consideration. Remarkably, the proposal is being put forward in the middle of a healthcare crisis that threatens the very lives of the many vulnerable New Yorkers who depend upon such services as Medicaid. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed $400 million cut is part of a bigger program to slash the medicaid budget by $2.5 billion over several years. As the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/press\/releases\/2020\/2020-03-19_mrt2_approves_recommendations.htm\">Department of Health website<\/a> put it, the panel, known as the Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT), was put together in February with the goal of \u201crestoring financial sustainability to the Medicaid program while connecting other programmatic initiatives that would advance the core healthcare strategies [Cuomo] has pursued since taking office in 2011.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As the Doctors Council noted in an <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorscouncil.org\/2020\/03\/urgent-call-to-action\/\">urgent call to action<\/a> released on March 10, the MRT has \u201clittle to no frontline doctor representation or representatives of patients and communities, and no one from NYC Health + Hospitals (NYCH+H).\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would note that this guy is considered to be the &#8220;Great White Hope&#8221; by the Democratic Party establishment (there is no Democratic Party establishment), and being considered as a replacement for Joe Biden should he have issues as a result of \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 being Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rat Faced Andy&#8221; Cuomo&nbsp; abides, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax pied-a-terres.Tax private jets.Tax yachts.Tax stock transfers and buybacks.Tax commercial vacancies.Tax carried interest. We need government in New York more than ever. Now is not the time to starve it. Tax the super-wealthy. #BudgetJustice \u2014 Senator Brad Hoylman (@bradhoylman) March 27, 2020 In response to a the pandemic Andrew Cuomo is proposing cuts to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,572,374,405,460],"class_list":["post-176753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176753"}],"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=176753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}