Statement By Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos
March 11, 2010
(New York,N.Y.)-Lieutenant Governor Ravitch’s plan includes many proposals that Senate Republicans have passed over the years that died in the State Assembly.
We have passed legislation to move the state fiscal year; to require that the Governor submit a multi-year financial plan with the Executive Budget; to establish an Independent Budget Office; and to prohibit the Governor from using the budget to pursue policy changes rather than just authorizing and appropriating money.
We have also passed legislation to change the state constitution to put a spending cap in place and to require a two-thirds super-majority vote to raise taxes. Unfortunately, neither of these fiscal reforms are included in the Ravitch plan.
If they were in place, New York would not have to consider borrowing its way out of its financial problems, which is the wrong remedy for the state’s budget problems. Without sufficient spending controls in place, the state will never dig its way out its fiscal hole.
The Lieutenant Governor and the Governor should be pressuring Senator Sampson and Speaker Silver to follow the budget reform law and produce their alternatives to the Executive Budget, and set a schedule for open conference committee negotiations so we can begin to make progress toward a new budget.
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