Molitor Backs Blakeman's Proposal to Cut Income Taxes for Low-Wage New Yorkers

Chautauqua County's representative in the New York State Assembly says he likes Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman's proposal to cut taxes for lower-wage earners. Andrew Molitor, who is seeking a second two-year term in the legislature's lower chamber, supports Blakeman's recent proposal to eliminate income taxes for single filers earning up to $50,000 a year and up to $100,000 for joint filers. Molitor points to the amount of spending added to Governor Kathy Hochul's original budget proposal...

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The Westfield Republican feels that streamlining and eliminating waste and fraud in the system would negate the need for those tax dollars...

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For his part, Blakeman says he would cut funding for migrants and Medicaid. Incumbent Democrat Hochul's campaign replied in a statement that "while Governor Hochul fights tooth and nail for New Yorkers, cutting middle class taxes to their lowest rate in 70 years, Bruce Blakeman did the opposite: he jacked up property taxes twice" as Nassau County Executive.

Andrew Molitor at a rally in support of Bruce Blakeman in Dunkirk in early October. Photo by Greg Larson