One-Party Rule Driving NY Spending Surge

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. What is today is Senator George Burrello and from the Great County upstate of Chatauqua and well Santa Barrello, what the hell is going on in Auburn.

0:13 Speaker 2 Well, that’s a good question, we’re all asking. We just passed our eighth extender for the budget, which just keeps services operating while Democrats continue to fight amongst themselves. And you know the thing is they don’t really they don’t really disagree on raising taxes and spending more money. They all agree on that. It’s another record breaking proposed budget.

0:32 But what they can’t does.

0:34 Speaker 1 Anybody in Aubany ever say, can we make things more efficient to bring things down?

0:39 Speaker 2 Well, you know, unfortunately, I would say that that’s not in their It’s not in their playbook. You know. It’s not about being more efficient. It’s about, you know, spending more and creating more burdens, particularly for the working class and for businesses. And and that’s kind of where we are right now. The governor sees the political liability of the climate agenda that’s already raised the cost electricity.

0:59 I mean every every month when you open your utility bills, you know you’ve seen the impact of the so called the CLCPA, the Climate Act on everything, particularly your utility bill. But it’s it’s not enough for them. They have this dangerous agenda that they have sued about the governor on recently and basically saying we want to continue to push forward.

1:20 But interestingly enough, that’s what the governor is holding out on because she knows this could this could hurt her in the election upcoming.

1:28 Speaker 1 Over well, I mean there’s a lot of things that could hurt her in the election. First of all, you know, everybody’s saying that she has to provide checks and balances on the Mayo race, and you know there’s a there’s a lot of tough things going on the Mayo race.

1:43 And then on that issue with that sergeant that was convicted, everybody says that maybe she should provide a pardon.

1:55 Speaker 2 Yeah, look, there’s no doubt about it right now that the tail is wagging the dog as they say that. Right now, Mayor mum Donnie seems to have more cloud and more political capital than the governor and she’s constantly, i guess, trying to play catch up. But you brought up some very important things. He’s also you know, he’s

2:14 claiming victory when we haven’t even had a budget passed yet, that he’s going to get his peer to pieta tear tax, such a fancy French term for adding property taxes on top of property taxes in a state that already has the highest property tax in the nation. So the government needs to absolutely push back, and she needs to start

2:31 supporting the working class and the people who pay the bills here in New York State.

2:35 Speaker 1 Well, I think that the other problem is, and you know, I speak every week to our guy in charge of the New York City Partnership now, mister Phillip, and he represents three hundred largest companies in New York City. And I speak to our friend up north and mister Zuba, that represents three thousand companies upstate New York, and a

3:02 lot of them are leaving. Yeah, no doubt about it.

3:04 Speaker 2 And by the way, speaking of the Business Council and Paul Zuber, they just did a survey. Seventy percent of New Yorkers believe that this climate agenda is going to raise the cost of their living. Seventy percent believe it’s going to cost them more simply to meet these climate mandates.

3:20 And so this is what the governor sees, you know. And now this a Meekus brief that was filed in the lawsuit. Seventeen Democrats signed it admitting that they know that the Climate Act is going to raise costs for New Yorkers and they don’t care. They know that there is a tremendous cost, multiple billions of dollars. They actually

3:37 called out multiple billions of dollars, but they don’t care. This radical climate agenda is more important to anything else, even devastating New York’s economy. That’s the dangerous part of this.

3:46 Speaker 1 I was on Fox last week, and you know what I said. I said to the fact is that at a certain point, there’s three hundred thousand employees in New York City, approximately two hundred thousand in New York State, as five hundred thousand employees that if if Moody’s or S and P put you on the crap list and

4:10 you can’t borrow money, that means maybe some of those employees have to get laid off, get them upset.

4:17 Speaker 2 Well, yeah, you know, you know the impact of even a small change in an interest rate, bond ratings and the interest rates that you pay to bond, and that would have a devastating impact, there’s no doubt about it.

4:28 But you know, unfortunately, my Democrat colleagues in particular, really don’t understand finances. They they most of them have never really had a job outside of government, so they they live off of talking points and radical agendas and this, this, this thought that, and hope that that some things will just get worked out. There’s also an arrogance to this.

4:47 There’s an arrogance thinking that people just will grin and bear it here in New York, that all the businesses that they are that are continuing to, you know, to place more burdens on will just keep just keep absorbing it.

4:59 And that’s not three. We’re seeing that already billions upon billions of dollars of taxable income have left New York under one party Democrat rule.

5:08 Speaker 1 Well, somewhere something has to give. And you know what I said to the Democrats and what I said to the Republicans, maybe you need a situation where what happened with Ronald’reagan and he won forty nine states, actually forty nine and a half. He only lost a fiftieth state by a few thousand votes. And then maybe the Democrats

5:32 well scratched ahead and say we’re doing something wrong.

5:35 Speaker 2 Well, that’s the key, John, People here in New York State have to vote for common sense. They have to vote to restore a balance in our state government. I don’t care if you’re a lifelong Democrat and non affiliated voter and independent, or you’re just not paying attention. You have to understand the damage this is doing to New

5:50 York State. So we need to restore common sense and people who vote accordingly.

5:54 Speaker 1 Thank you so much Senator Burrello for coming in today on Sunday, and God bless you, and God bless Mark. God bless