'Don't be ridiculous': Two Post editors discuss Cuomo's tax plan
Fred Dicker. Photo via howiewolf on Twitter.
11:28 am Dec. 20, 2011
The correct description of Governor Andrew Cuomo's tax plan was a matter of (brief) debate between Bob McManus, editorial page editor of the New York Post, and Fred Dicker, the Post's state editor, on Dicker's radio show this morning.
McManus: "It was a tax increase."Dicker: "For some, and a reduction for others."
McManus: "It was a tax increase."
Dicker: "But it was also a tax reduction."
McManus: "What?"
Dicker: "It was."
McManus: "Don't be ridiculous … You ended up at the end of the day with two and a half billion dollars more than you had when you started. It's a tax increase."
Dicker: "Right. Paid for by 30,000 people ... and an income transfer from them to a lot of others."
McManus: "Now you're talking about tax disbursement."
The announcement of the plan was timed by the governor so that it could be presented simultaneously as a tax cut and a revenue-raiser for the state.
