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Urban Raising Software Wind Awareness Page 4 Page 8 Page 9 oc t o b e r 30, 2008 WESTCHESTER TIMES TRIBUNE Complimentary WestchesterTimesTribune.Typepad.com Your World, Our Beat; Now You Know! Vo l u m e 3 • Nu m b e r 111 Testimony before the New Feld Asserts Westchester Brodsky Releases York State Commission Property Taxes Will Congressional Testimony on Property Tax Reform Double in Next 10 Years on Yankee Stadium WASHINGTON, D.C. -- measurable economic benefit to the By Phil Amicone Oppenheimer Says All Well in Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky region or the community resulting LARCHMONT, NY -- Property New York State Commission on Mayor of the City of Yonkers testified in front of the Congressional from massive public subsidies of taxes in Westchester County will Property Tax Reform. That alone Domestic Policy Subcommittee the new Stadium, that the public, at least double within the next 10 will double property taxes in 10 Good afternoon Chairman Suozzi, leaders in Albany must be willing on Friday, October 24, 2008, at not the Yankees were paying for years if the years. In some members of the commission. to address its root causes and that 2145 Rayburn, in Washington D.C. the new Stadium, that the actions of state does not Westchester Welcome to Yonkers. I also want won’t be easy or politically popular. The hearing the New York pass a local tax towns, though, to welcome the many people in But so far at least, the governor was entitled City IDA were cap and take property taxes attendance today who’ve come and this commission have shown “Gaming the at variance urgent action are rising at from across our a willingness to Tax Code: with the to address a much faster state to share listen through The New York requirements the runaway rate, by double their thoughts hearings like Yankees and and purposes spending and digits in and convictions these, which I the City of New of State law, u n f u n d e d some, which on this very am hopeful is York Respond that the binding mandates that would double important issue.
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