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NY Times on Budget Cuts: Cuomo Takes Easy Way Out, Illogically Caters to Special Interests « EdVox

NY Times on Budget Cuts: Cuomo Takes Easy Way Out, Illogically Caters to Special Interests « EdVox

NY Times on Budget Cuts: Cuomo Takes Easy Way Out, Illogically Caters to Special Interests

A recent NY Times editorial from March 19th discusses Cuomo’s decisions to cater to special interests while slashing public funding for the most vulnerable.

“Gov. Andrew Cuomo has rightly argued that painful spending cuts will be needed to close New York’s projected $10 billion deficit. The hard truth is that it is impossible to cut spending deeply without cutting the state’s huge outlays for education and health care. That means that New York’s most vulnerable citizens — schoolchildren, the elderly, the poor, the sick — will feel a disproportionate amount of the pain.

Governor Cuomo has vowed to make the tough decisions and not to be swayed by