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Assemblyman Kellner Needs to Check His Facts! « EdVox

Assemblyman Kellner Needs to Check His Facts! « EdVox

Assemblyman Kellner Needs to Check His Facts!

Recently Assemblymember Kellner wrote an editorial column in the NY Post, calling to Let the Millionaires Tax Die, which would essentially leave our children wide open to education cuts. Billy Easton, the Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education responds below. TO TAKE ACTION PLEASE VISIT www.aqeny.org !!

Dear Assemblymember Kellner,

In your recent opinion editorial column in the New York Post entitled Let the Millionaires Tax Die you assert that the millionaire’s tax “hasn’t even raised the revenue it was supposed to — falling well short of the projected $4 billion a year.”

However, the New York State Division of Budget’s Enacted Budget Report of August 2010 reported that high-income tax provisions actually generated $3.83 billion in 2009–just shy of the initial $3.9 billion projection. The