So Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his Democratic conference have come out against delaying tax refunds, and he and Senate Democratic conference leader John Sampson are against taxing sugared soda and other revenue raisers proposed by Gov. Paterson.
Senate Democrats are moving in the opposite direction from budget balance by endorsing a "property tax relief" program costing $1.2 billion a year, and many of them are also opposing any education funding cuts, despite the huge amounts of school lard served up by the state at several times the rate of inflation for as long as anyone can remember.
Senate Republicans have been taking similar irresponsible positions about taxes and spending, but at least they're also proposing some ways to cut Medicaid fraud. Maybe they can run as the somewhat less fiscally irresponsible party.
It sure seems that for all his problems, Paterson is the only one of these guys living in the real world where multibillion-dollar deficits need to be addressed.
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