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The MTA dominated the agenda in Albany this week, but not all lawmakers were happy about it.
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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. |
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Has anyone done any research as to how much the owners of the NY Mets and the NY Yankees will be contributing to the MTA Bailout? If just that group was taxed .34 per $100 of every baseball players multimillion dollar salary the small business owner would not have to pay this tax. Add the tax on salaries of large companies and, especially, the multi-million dollar salaries of NY based TV station personalities and the MTA would be financed for years to come! Why should the small business such as an Antique Shop in Tivoli, NY have to pay this tax when the MTA does not even service that part of Dutchess County?
Now I have to sit and listen to our new Governor give the commencement address at Marist College this year! It is sad that he lost his vision but I am afraid he has now lost his mind!