Monroerising.com’s “Spitzer’s Budget Hurts…” Series.
We at Monroerising.com have served in the unfortunate role of reporting on how bad Elliott “I’m a F***ing Steamroller” Spitzer’s proposed budget will be for the Rochester area and Upstate New York.
Sadly, our local media has been mostly lackluster in it’s reporting on Spitzer’s cuts to the Rochester community. Since the NYS Budget is such an important issue, I’m going to focus my attention here for the next few weeks.
We’ll begin our “Elliott Spitzer’s Budget Hurts… (fill in the blank)” series with a look at it’s impact on local taxpayers.
First, let’s recap coverage we’ve reported and seen about school Funding.
“Elliott Spitzer’s Budget Hurts Schools and Children”
Prudence reported earlier on Spitzer’s $21 million in cuts to all of the school districts in Monroe County and the City of Rochester, just so he could funnel our funding to New York City. So far, we’ve found that only State Senator Joe Robach has held a press conference calling on the Governor to restore these cuts to our schools. Last year, Spitzer and the state legislature passed a 4-year school aid bill that provided a stable school aid funding formula for schools across all of New York State.
Then, less than 1 year later, Spitzer throws the formula out the window and cuts the funding to all of the schools… well… not quite all of them. Instead of cutting all schools across the board, Spitzer cuts the funding for all schools, except New York City. Spitzer’s budget actually takes the funding he cut to everyone else (including all Monroe County and City of Rochester schools) and redirects it to NYC. Apparently, Rochester’s high needs school districts don’t matter to Spitzer.
“Elliott Spitzer’s Budget Hurts Local Taxpayers”
The New York State Association of Counties points out how Spitzer’s budget will harm local taxpayers throughout New York. But, instead of working to lessen burden he’s placing on these Counties, Spitzer is having his people basically call them all liars.
County Executive Maggie Brooks is also taking on King Spitzer for cuts he’s making to Monroe County. On a side note, I have to laugh at the 1 or 2 forum comments on the D&C article from people who believe Monroe County taxpayers deserve Spitzer’s funding cuts. Who in their right mind would say we deserve what he’s doing to us? They must be from New York City or as I like to call it - The Land of Plenty… of OUR Tax Dollars!
Stay tuned to find out who gets hurt by Spitzer’s Budget next.
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