Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Cuomo Abandons Dad’s Legacy With Minimum Wage Claim


By Fredric U. Dicker, Nov 23, 2015 NY Post

Gov. Andrew Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage “steal’’ $2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to one of the state’s best-known fiscal analysts.

Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and former SUNY vice chancellor, said low-paid workers are, in fact, using the very same “safety-net’’ programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) that Mario Cuomo — and President Bill Clinton — once championed.

The current Gov. Cuomo, conducting an aggressive, union-backed crusade in his father’s name for a mandatory $15-an-hour minimum wage, unleashed a jaw-dropping attack on a portion of the private sector last week by claiming low-wage businesses are “stealing from the taxpayers of this state’’ because their workers are entitled to state and federal benefits.

 
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