Focus on NY State Sen. Lee Zeldin

Sen. Lee Zeldin’s Victory Rally: Repeal the MTA Tax

Where a freshman state senator from The L.I. shows DC Republicans how to take a victory when you get one, and move on to the next battle…

On Taxes, Millionaires, and the NY Republican Party

To my left, you see a picture of Governor Andrew Cuomo sandwiched by two freshman Republican legislators: Sen. Lee Zeldin and Asm. Dean Murray (or, “The Legion of Doom” as I’ve taken to calling them). The picture is from today’s bill signing of the Governor’s Tax Reform plan which, among other things, reduced the MTA Tax by 80% and temporarily increasing taxes on people making more than two million dollars a year.

There have been quite a few from the right criticizing the Republicans in Albany for selling out and agreeing to a tax hike, giving in to the Occupy Wall Street crowd, not having back bone, and so on. While I agree that in a perfect world everyone would agree with us and we’d get everything we want, I just want to bring up three key points: