Staten Island Borough President Jim Molinaro has come out swinging against a little-known tax loophole that, according to estimates, costs American taxpayers $4.2 billion per year.
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5/24/12
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School spending plans passed at a high rate on Long Island and throughout New York state last week, ending the first budget season in which districts were limited by the state’s new tax levy cap.
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5/24/12
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Warren Buffett, the billionaire businessman and investor, well-known in America’s political community for his public proclamations that he is willing to pay more taxes and that his fellow billionaires should join him in his fight to repeal the U.S. tax code, has himself in a little pickle.
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5/10/12
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After months of debate, review and modification, the Rockville Centre Board of Trustees passed the 2012-13 village budget on April 24, with a 3-2 vote.
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By Aaron Axelson
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4/26/12
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In a unanimous vote at the Preliminary Budget Hearing on April 17, the Rockville Centre Board of Education adopted a proposed $97.3 million spending plan that will go to the district’s voters on May 15.
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Judy Rattner
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4/25/12
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When Village Comptroller Michael Schussheim presented the Rockville Centre Board of Trustees with his tentative budget, which includes a plan to raise taxes by 6.97 percent, Trustee Ed Oppenheimer made it clear that he did not believe that enough had been done to cut costs.
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Aaron Axelson
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4/11/12
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Members of the bargaining unit representing Rockville Centre teachers and teaching assistants, the largest of seven such units in the school district, voted on March 27 to ratify a memorandum of agreement for a new four-year contract.
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Judy Rattner
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4/4/12
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Members of the bargaining unit representing Rockville Centre teachers and teaching assistants, the largest of seven bargaining units in the school district, voted on Tuesday to ratify a memorandum of agreement for a new four-year contract. The Board of Education is expected to vote on whether to approve the memorandum of agreement at its next meeting on April 3.
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Judy Rattner
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3/29/12
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Rockville Centre’s tentative budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year would see the village tax rate increase by 6.97 percent.
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Aaron Axelson
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3/21/12
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Last Tuesday, President Obama delivered his third and perhaps final State of the Union address. Given that we’re in an election year, it was understandably more of a stump speech than a major policy address.
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2/2/12
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