D.C.s budget takes dead aim at NYC

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D.C.’s budget takes dead aim at NYC





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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, October 27, 2017, 5:00 AM

Things are really starting to get ugly in our nation’s capital. The adoption by the House and Senate of a budget resolution moves the day of reckoning a big step closer.

It is hard to overstate the danger posed to the nation’s social fabric by the Robin Hood-in-reverse agenda advanced by this fiscal plan, especially when combined with the tax framework offered by the White House with Republican congressional leadership and the President’s latest actions to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

Some of the worst-hit states would be those that turned out in force to put Donald Trump in the White House and are aligned with the GOP congressional majority.

But dollar for dollar, no state stands to suffer more from the 1-2-3 budget-tax-health care punch than Trump’s home state of New York. While very wealthy New Yorkers might benefit, the middle class and poor here would suffer mightily.

Follow the dollars. The budget resolution opens the door for at least $1.5 trillion in tax cuts and allows Republicans to adopt both these and unprecedented budget cuts via partisan “reconciliation” — with only a simple majority in the Senate rather than a filibuster-proof 60 votes.

To give fat tax cuts to rich donors, Republicans seek to slash nondefense domestic spending and entitlements, whatever the effects on their constituents. They know they need the reconciliation authority to get their way on taxes and avoid having to compromise with Democrats....................................