Lawmakers: property-tax reform No. 1 priority
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Assemblymen Joel Miller, R-Poughkeepsie, and Marc Molinaro, R-Tivoli, Dutchess County, announced this week that they sent a letter to Gov. Eliot Spitzer urging him to make property-tax reform his top priority for 2008.
There is a property tax “crisis” in New York, and taxes “continue to skyrocket at a rate more than twice that of inflation,” Miller said in a statement. “Instead of digging ourselves deeper and deeper into a hole from which we may never escape, we must act now.”
Molinaro said the Democrat-controlled Assembly has been ”blocking” property-tax reform measures approved by the GOP-led Senate. “The governor must work with the state Legislature in order to achieve meaningful, long-term property tax reform this year,” he said.
Spitzer did forge a compromise with the Legislature this year to approve a $1.3 billion property-tax rebate targeted to the middle class.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
