As Democrats flounder, the GOP makes great strides

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday Morning with us today is GOP chairman of the New York State Party. We’ve got Ed Cox, a good friend, smart guy, and you have concerns about New York State. We’re losing population, We’re losing businesses. You give us an update.

0:19 Where do you think we are.

0:20 Speaker 2 We’re losing jobs because of what the government in Albany is doing. John and twenty seven thousand good Amazon jobs killed in Queens. The whole natural gas industry, pipeline building industry in New York State killed. These are good jobs.

0:37 These are royalties for the southern tier of New York where natural gas was development first began, and now it was proposed and it was teased up to the governor state of the state addressed that they were going to have a capped invest program, which is what does that mean?

1:02 Speaker 1 I mean the average person out there just sounds like another sexy name. What does it really mean?

1:07 Speaker 2 Well, it’s meant to be a sexy name, so it can be passed as something that sex scene is going to produce billions a year of dollars a year for the state government. And the problem is that it impacts all businesses in New York State. It puts a it measures their so called greenhouse gas emissions, and then you

1:32 have to buy. You have to have allowances. You’re required to have allowances. I guess the bureaucracy will decide what your allowance is and you have to pay for the allowances. So it’s just another tax on businesses in New York State and it really impacts all businesses and it’s very arbitrary.

1:51 The governor did not put it in her estate of the state even though it was teased beforehand. But boy, the environmental community is pushing very very hard because they they they they this is this is what they do.

2:07 Speaker 1 Is this subject to review of the new federal government people that are.

2:14 Speaker 2 On well, look, this is contrary to President Trump’s basic idea that we need to develop our energy resources throughout the United States to the maximum, because this is it’s important for American industry, it’s important for American jobs, and it’s important also in world peace that we be supplying energy to the world as opposed to Russia or Iran

2:40 and fill in their coffers for their nefarious means.

2:45 Speaker 1 So I mean, is this subject to being approved by oh, the state, the state councils or the Assembly or the Senate or.

2:55 Speaker 2 The Senate and the Assembly and the governor would do it would be a new law and a very questionable law that would sub be subject to judicial review and also as a conflict with the supremacy clause that would whatever laws are passed in impacting these same issues by the Republican Senate and House and President Biden, President Trump,

3:30 I hate.

3:30 Speaker 1 To keep repeating the same old thing, but I think our listeners have to understand it. We got twenty two million people in New York City, New York State, and went between the city and the state, we’re paying three hundred and fifty three hundred and sixty billion in taxes for the budget. Florida has twenty two million people and

3:54 there only paying one hundred and ten billion in taxes. Where is the difference?

3:58 Speaker 2 Our budget is large than the budgets of Florida and Texas combined. Two hundred and fifty two billion dollars is a proposed budget by the government.

4:10 Speaker 1 Two fifty plus one hundred and ten for the city exactly fifty.

4:14 Speaker 2 That’s three fifty all together. And the legislature still has to put in all their favorite items, so it’s sure to go up from there there. There is just no constraints on where the budget goes. That’s the problem.

4:30 Speaker 1 That is a very serious problem because if people keep leaving and leaving, what happens a.

4:37 Speaker 2 We It is estimated that we are going to lose two to three congressional seats in the in the twenty thirty redistricting when the census is done, because we have, on a comparative basis, will have lost population compared to Texas, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina and all those states that, frankly a lot of them don’t even have an income tax.

5:01 Speaker 1 But let me tell you something else. And I don’t know what the federal legislatures are doing. I understand the determined population by census and census counts illegal migrants.

5:16 Speaker 2 That does not make any sense at all to have either.

5:20 Speaker 1 But it’s the law.

5:22 Speaker 2 That’s the present law. But that can be changed by Washington, and I know that President Trump is determined to change that. Of course, he’s only got a slim majority in the House of Representatives, but I would think just about all the Republicans in the House of Representatives would be for that.

5:43 Speaker 1 A tax New York State GOP chairman, anything else you want to tell the American people.

5:48 Speaker 2 Look, we have to save New York. John, I love New York. I love New York. This is the financial center, the media center, the commercial center of the world, and I want to keep it that way. And to do that, we need to make sure that we have a business friendly state, a job friendly state, and the state unfortunately,

6:09 has been going in the wrong direction for too many years.

6:13 Speaker 1 Hey Cox, thank you so much for coming on and enlightening all our listeners. And God bless you, and good bless you.

6:20 Speaker 2 Mark, thank you job. Always a pleasure to be with you.