Cruise Into The Past

Turns out, New York State’s STAR program failed in it’s primary goal – to reduce the property tax burden. It actually had the opposite of it’s intended effect – it accelerated spending by local school districts, which in turn raises the homeowner’s taxes. I really don’t understand how politicians think. If a whole bunch of…

Wow… here’s a tax I never knew New York had under it’s belt – the Jock Tax. I believe that professional athletes are grossly overpaid, but targeting a tax specifically on their profession seems even more unfair than the fact that guys that could barely graduate from high school make multimillion dollar salaries to play…