{"id":66384,"date":"2016-03-16T04:39:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66384"},"modified":"2016-03-15T22:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T02:43:41","slug":"tenney-assembly-dems-budget-proposal-will-continue-to-crush-upstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66384","title":{"rendered":"Tenney: Assembly Dems budget proposal will continue to crush Upstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_64689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64689\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=64689\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64689\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-64689\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Claudia-Tenney-Headshot-150x144.jpg?resize=150%2C144\" alt=\"Claudia Tenney\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Claudia-Tenney-Headshot.jpg?resize=150%2C144&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Claudia-Tenney-Headshot.jpg?resize=300%2C287&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Claudia-Tenney-Headshot.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudia Tenney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>A statement from Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney (R,C-New Hartford)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday\u2019s one-house budget signifies the Democrat\u2019s relentless attack on the families, communities and businesses in Upstate New York. Each year Assembly Democrats obsess over progressive policies that damage Upstate New York\u2019s business community,&#8221; said Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney. &#8220;Not only have the Democrats proposed a $5.6 billion tax increase without any form of mandate relief, they also want to provide free college tuition and health care to illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, a 67-percent increase to the minimum wage would devastate small businesses and family farms that must continue to compete for able employees over a government-subsidized workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite full restoration of the Gap Elimination Adjustment and increased foundation aid, I could not support this omnibus bill. The Assembly budget resolution continues funding the SAFE Act and violates the provisions of the state constitution that governs appropriations and revenues. Furthermore this plan would cut local agricultural assistance by over 50 percent while making it easier to cheat the welfare system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese policies are simply unacceptable, and I will not stand idly by as another secret, closed-door budget deal takes place. Instead of the harmful economic and social policies that the governor and his special-interest donors intend to dump on the people of New York, we need policies that promote a successful business climate and cut expensive taxes and burdensome regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement from Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney (R,C-New Hartford) \u201cYesterday\u2019s one-house budget signifies the Democrat\u2019s relentless attack on the families, communities and businesses in Upstate New York. Each year Assembly Democrats obsess over progressive policies that damage Upstate New York\u2019s business community,&#8221; said Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney. &#8220;Not only have the Democrats proposed a $5.6 billion tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22341,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hgI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}