Andrew Cuomo's Latest Radio Ad Covers Up His Hidden Taxes And His Flubbed Corruption Cleanup

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Plattsburgh, New York, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) March 16, 2011 -- The blog CuomoTARP.blogspot.com latest post is "Andrew Cuomo's Latest Radio Ad Covers Up His Hidden Taxes And His Flubbed Corruption Cleanup"
The blog has the text of Hope and Change by Governor Andrew Cuomo in that radio spot: [condensed text follows]
" Hello – this is Governor Andrew Cuomo; you elected me to clean up Albany and to get the state’s economy running once again.....
We need a sweeping new ethics plan that will give us a government that we can be proud of; a government that works for the people and not for the special interest.

I proposed a new budget .... with no new taxes....
Let’s get New York back to work. Thank you."

The blog reports that Andrew Cuomo must have made this ad before he accepted his Medicaid Redesign Team's recommendations to
1. "taxing radiology visits and physician-based surgeries...business groups across the state are hammering Cuomo on what they see as an about-face. His panel wants to expand the 9.63 percent surcharge on the other medical services to raise $100 million more a year. But that would add up to 2 percentage points more to health insurance premiums."

"The revenue-raising surcharge on medical services "is really a tax increase that will force employers and workers to pay more for health insurance," said Heather Briccetti, acting president The Business Council of New York State. ... The Employer Alliance for Affordable Health Care called the measures "are nothing more than a hidden tax on New York's small business community."

2. For the Counties, who pay a share equal to NY State's share, this year's Medicaid expenditure were $13.8 Billion and the cap on next year's expenditure will be $15.1 Billion(+9.4%)?

Does increasing property taxes by $1.3 Billion not count as a tax increase?

3. Is SEIU a special interest? The New York Times reports, "New York’s influential health care workers’ union [SEIU 1199] appears on the verge of wringing significant victories out of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s austerity budget, even as he nears potentially historic cuts in spending."

Finally, the blog asks what about Senator Kruger's corruption by taking over $1 million in bribes, where the NY Post's Fred Dicker reports: "Andy flubs big chance at cleaning up Capitol cesspool"

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