Forbes: Time for Congress to block Cuomo’s “disgusting†tax on out-of-state COVID-19 volunteers
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 2:01 pm on May 8, 2020
How do you defuse a hostage situation? That’s pretty much what Andrew Cuomo has set up in his fight with Congress to get bailout money to close the budget gaps opened wider by the COVID-19 lockdown. Earlier this week, the governor of New York told a reporter that the people who came to the state to lend a hand in the crisis would have to pay state income taxes, because the budget deficit would prevent him from approving “subsidies†to the people who came from around the country to help New Yorkers.
That level of ingratitude and outright greed at the highest level of New York hasn’t gotten as much attention as it should, but it has gotten some notice. On yesterday’s The Five on Fox News Channel, former White House press secretary Dana Perino called it “disgusting,†and accused Cuomo of using good-hearted Americans as political “pawnsâ€:
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/05/08/forbes-time-congress-block-cuomos-disgusting-tax-state-covid-19-volunteers/
