Most New Yorkers support millionaires’ tax, ‘raise the age teens can be tried,’ free college tuition

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SOURCE: THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

URL: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-yorkers-support-millionaires-tax-raise-age-article-1.3013589

BY Kenneth Lovett


ALBANY — With state leaders racing to finalize a new state budget by the Saturday start of the new fiscal year, a majority of New Yorkers say tax the rich, keep teens out of adult prisons and offer free tuition for some public college students.

According to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, 56% of those surveyed said the state should extend an expiring tax on millionaires while just 25% wanted to end it.

The sentiment to extend the tax is particularly strong among Democrats and independents, while a plurality of Republicans (38% to 34%) say the tax should be allowed to expire.

Gov. Cuomo has proposed a straight extension of the tax, saying the state needs the billions in revenue it raises to help fund things like middle class tax cuts enacted last year. The Democrat-led Assembly wants to extend and expand the tax while Senate Republicans want to let it expire

Cuomo's proposal to provide free college tuition to public college students from families with households with family incomes of up to $125,000 is even more popular, the poll found.

Seven out of every 10 New Yorkers support the plan, while just 26% oppose it, including 54% of Republicans, the poll found.

Cuomo and the Legislature are negotiating a compromise that would also expand the state Tuition Assistance Program that helps not only public college students, but those at private higher education institutions as well.

Another issue under intense negotiations is Cuomo's plan to raise the age to 18, up from 16, that teens can be tried as a adults.

The Quinnipiac poll found that 59% of New Yorkers support treating 16- and 17-year-olds as juveniles in the criminal justice system while 29% said they should be charged as adults.

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