ALBANY (NY)
The Buffalo News
January 2, 2018
By Tom Precious
ALBANY – With advance roll-outs of his State of the State proposals ending, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday moves onto the actual speech phase — an address certain to be particularly scrutinized by the left and right in an election year for a governor who sees himself with national political ambitions.
The governor, in both broad and specific brush strokes, will signal how the state can keep funding key programs in education and health care at a time when its deficit is project to be at least $4.4 billion. He is also expected to lay out changes in the state’s tax code that will help thousands of New Yorkers restricted by the new federal tax law in their ability to fully deduct their state and local tax payments.
While some takeaway is certain to focus on Cuomo’s bashing of Washington as more fodder for a possible 2020 White House run, Cuomo allies insist the tax issue, for one, is a hyper-provincial one.
“This is doing damage to New Yorkers and we have to deal with it. It’s very local and very personal for all elected officials in New York to undo the damage that was put on the shoulders of New Yorkers by this federal tax law,’’ said Sen. Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat and head of the Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference.
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