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Ken Girardin retweeted
Characteristics of *actual* banned books:
- Amazon refuses to sell bc it violates their “offensive content policy”
- online forums discussing it are filled with ‘we need to do something’ anons (FBI)
- people will fly around the world to murder you for translating it
Ken Girardin retweeted
Tbf, paying a boatload for projects truly is part of the “historic character of the building”
I reached out to the NYS Office of General Services about the railings.
They’re going up on the Senate and Assembly staircases, but NOT the Million Dollar Staircase. OGS cites safety reasons for installing them.
Total cost: $700,000
Ken Girardin retweeted
I see a lot of people describing Social Security benefit cuts as "changing the bargain," but this is wrong. The rules that have been in place for decades explicitly require that benefits be cut to a level that can be paid with SS tax revenues once the trust fund runs out.
The retirees calling for taxes to be raised above the tax rate that they paid on their own wages in order to avoid the legally mandated cuts are the ones trying to change the bargain for their own benefit.
Well, if you wanna change the bargain because it’s to your benefit, then I don’t think I’m going to feel very guilty about using my power to not let you do that.
I don’t see you or your generation not wanting what security Social Security provides. When I see them is not wanting to pay their share of it, which means paying the previous generation. That doesn’t sound like a very good deal to me so we’re not going to do that. I am willing to listen to ideas that don’t involve me getting screwed and no one else.
Ken Girardin retweeted
The New York State attorney general's office appears to have purchased and put on display a vintage Crosman pellet gun at its gun buyback in Rochester today
Ken Girardin retweeted
BREAKING:
Federal and NY State authorities are raiding several adult daycares around NYC suspected of Medicaid fraud including money laundering according to Governor Kathy Hochul.
This is a developing story from @pix11news.
#nyc #medicaid
Ken Girardin retweeted
Not happening.
Albany Common Council has passed a commuter tax, which would deduct 0.3% from non-resident paychecks, pending state approval. MORE: news10.com/news/albany-commo…
Ken Girardin retweeted
The claim that "property taxes mean you don't own your own home" has become ubiquitous in some conservative circles. The argument has been wildly successful despite being obviously incorrect. Me in @politico:
Ken Girardin retweeted
And don’t forget the original “Middle Class STAR” proptax rebate checks of 2008. A top priority of Senate Republicans, timed to hit mailboxes shortly before an election that produced … NY’s first Democratic state Senate majority in 42 years.
Ken Girardin retweeted
Mamdani's two supposedly more moderate checkers and balancers -- Levine and Menin -- have determined to counteract Mamdani's call for tax hikes by ... calling for tax hikes.
NYC spent more than it took in for four years in a row. The current budget was "balanced" amid an economic expansion only by postponing over $2B in pension payments. This is not a problem stemming from NY's taxes being too low.
Ken Girardin retweeted
Really enjoying rent control discourse today, which is full of people who think they can argue with reality.
Ken Girardin retweeted
“If Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey don’t opt in to the program, New York will gladly take their donations and spend them on our neediest students.”
My latest for @CityJournal on NY decision to opt in to the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program.
NEW: Kathy Hochul just chose kids over the teachers' unions.
Teachers' unions waged a fierce campaign to keep New York out of the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program, which allows people to make tax-deductible contributions that will go to scholarships for New York students.
Hochul’s announcement makes New York the 31st state to opt in. She is the second Democratic governor to do so.
Hochul deserves credit for holding firm against teachers' unions and their allies. We should hope other blue-state governors will demonstrate the same courage.
Via @dany_egorov city-journal.org/article/fed…
Ken Girardin retweeted
In @TheFP, I explain why:
thefp.com/p/i-support-the-de…
Ken Girardin retweeted
Could I interest anyone in Enrico Fermi Day as a celebration of Italian-Americans?
Ken Girardin retweeted
Aide to Governor Hochul, who does not plan to allow press questions here at New York City’s Columbus Day Parade, is ready to deploy a rope to keep reporters from getting close.
Ken Girardin retweeted
Ben Affleck needs to add a stamp to his movies like “This one is trying to be good”/“This is intentional trash I did for money only”
Ken Girardin retweeted
Hochul's officially IN on the federal education tax credit that the teachers union opposes.
Ken Girardin retweeted
It's official, the federal budget deficit is $2 trillion and growing. And in the middle of an expansion, not a recession.
If entitlement spending does not drastically slow down, we are soon headed to a debt crisis.
What does it mean? Higher interest rates and lower growth.
The federal budget deficit totaled $2.0 trillion in fiscal year 2026, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, $218 billion more than the deficit recorded in fiscal year 2025. cbo.gov/publication/61985
Ken Girardin retweeted
Eventually @NewYorkStateAG @TishJames came up with former NY AG Bob Abrams, who she has described in the past as her mentor, but it took about 30 seconds.