New York Governor Andrew Cuomo requested a meeting with President Trump over tax reform that he claims is hurting his state’s revenue, but it quickly turned into a lecture on fracking and late-term abortion.
The meeting, which Law 360 described as “Cuomo return(ing) empty-handed,” did not go as planned by the extremist Democrat. The sole intent of the meeting was to discuss a$10,000 cap on federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT). Cuomo is citing the provision for a drop in over $2 billion in tax revenue.
“I told the president myself today: SALT repeal is hurting us. And if you hurt New York, you’re harming the economic engine of the nation,” he bragged after the meeting.
White House notes suggest a different story. While the President and Cuomo did discuss the matter, Trump turned the tables and reminded the Governor that exorbitantly high taxes in his state might actually be the problem.
According to Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere, the President listened to Cuomo’s SALT concerns then “reiterated the negative impact that high taxes in states like New York have on hardworking families and job creators.”
Cuomo goes to DC, gets earful from Trump about abortion and taxes https://t.co/bmpoZcwW7M pic.twitter.com/CpYnmu3HOz
— New York Post (@nypost) February 13, 2019
Trump Suggests Fracking
President Trump offered a solution for Cuomo’s revenue woes, suggesting the Governor open up his state to fracking, which would be helpful to upstate New York, a region currently being held down economically by the state’s environmental restrictions.
Cuomo officially banned fracking in 2015, claiming it used too much water and could potentially contaminate the state’s drinking source.
Numerous studies, on the contrary, have found that fracking does not contaminate drinking water and would not have any large-scale impact on America’s groundwater.
“The President discussed economic growth opportunities for the State of New York, including helping lower energy prices throughout the entire Northeast by allowing low-cost, American energy to thrive with fracking and pipeline systems,” Deere said.
Cuomo isn’t interested in helping the upstate economy, a region he consistently loses in gubernatorial elections while being carried by the liberal cesspool of New York City and Long Island. I’m quite certain he was thrilled about the fracking lecture.
Trump Lectures Cuomo on Abortion
The lectures apparently didn’t stop there. According to the White House statement, President Trump managed to pivot away from tax talk to radical late-term abortion policies in New York.
“The President raised his concerns to Governor Cuomo about Democrats’ support of late-term abortions,” Deere added.
Last month, Cuomo celebrated his state’s new abortion legislation that allows termination of the baby at any time during pregnancy, describing the law as “a giant step forward in the hard-fought battle to ensure a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her own personal health” and a “historic victory for New Yorkers.”
He even went so far as to celebrate the future deaths of viable babies by lighting up monuments in New York in the color pink.
Cuomo says One World Trade Center’s 408-foot spire, the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, the Kosciuszko Bridge and the Alfred E. Smith Building in Albany will be lit in pink tonight to celebrate passage of Reproductive Health Act https://t.co/TmDEmj18Vy pic.twitter.com/XYdgxPNaoC
— Joseph Spector (@GannettAlbany) January 23, 2019
“We all have a duty to defend the most basic and fundamental human right — the right to life,” the President wrote in a letter to pro-life supporters this past summer. “As President, I am dedicated to protecting the lives of every American including the unborn.”
That starts with confronting one of the most extreme pro-infanticide governors in the nation.
Unfortunately President Trump is far too courteous a human being and therefore allows his valuable time to be totally wasted by the likes of standing dung piles like Cuomo.
It appears that Cuomo has bleed New York dry and now comes to the President begging for crumbs to save his sinking state ship. New Yorkers need to get rid of him and get a good conservative Governor. Maybe he or she can save this once great state.
Why is it that Cuomo and others in the Democrat Party think they can continue to bleed the entrepreneurs without problems. Most that lived in NY did so for convenience, it cost more to commute than to pay NY taxes. President @realDonaldTrump’s Tax Cut just tipped the scales.
Cuomo is a Slug and should be ignored by the President.
Cuomo has run out many businessesfrom NY, with his high taxes and restrictions. Now, as most DEMORATS, he’s playing the “blame game.”…Both NY State and City will be empty of people pretty soon and then he will have less tax revenue than what he has now. New York residents need to get real and live right, all they see and do is live in a fantasy world and that is there problem. NYorkers also need to get rid of that Mayor he is not good for NYC or anything else, and now you have AOC – – – You better hope she doesn’t let MS13 take you state over. Cuomo “Listen-UP” It’s just a damn shame that late term abortion (infanticide) was not legal when your mother was giving birth to you……very, very poor excuse for a “Catholic”
It must be hard for Cuomo to go to Trump but he deserves getting nothing as he has had nothing but EVIL things to say about Trump. Cuomo needs to get to Fracing cause his state will be empty of people pretty soon and then he will have less tax revenue than what he has now. New York residents need to get real and live right all they see and do is live in a fantasy and that is there problem. You also need to get rid of that Mayor he is not good for NYC or anything else. You better hope he doesn’t let MS13 take you state over.
It’s just a damn shame that late term abortion (infanticide) was not legal when his mom was giving birth to him.
He has run out many businesses, with his high taxes and restrictions. Now, as most DEMON-O-RATS, he’s playing the “blame game.”
Unfortunately President Trump is far too courteous a human being and therefore allows his valuable time to be totally wasted by the likes of standing dung piles like Cuomo.
It appears that Cuomo has bleed New York dry and now comes to the President begging for crumbs to save his sinking state ship. New Yorkers need to get rid of him and get a good conservative Governor. Maybe he or she can save this once great state.
Why is it that Cuomo and others in the Democrat Party think they can continue to bleed the entrepreneurs without problems. Most that lived in NY did so for convenience, it cost more to commute than to pay NY taxes. President @realDonaldTrump’s Tax Cut just tipped the scales.
Cuomo is a Slug and should be ignored by the President.
Cuomo has run out many businessesfrom NY, with his high taxes and restrictions. Now, as most DEMORATS, he’s playing the “blame game.”…Both NY State and City will be empty of people pretty soon and then he will have less tax revenue than what he has now. New York residents need to get real and live right, all they see and do is live in a fantasy world and that is there problem. NYorkers also need to get rid of that Mayor he is not good for NYC or anything else, and now you have AOC – – – You better hope she doesn’t let MS13 take you state over. Cuomo “Listen-UP” It’s just a damn shame that late term abortion (infanticide) was not legal when your mother was giving birth to you……very, very poor excuse for a “Catholic”
It must be hard for Cuomo to go to Trump but he deserves getting nothing as he has had nothing but EVIL things to say about Trump. Cuomo needs to get to Fracing cause his state will be empty of people pretty soon and then he will have less tax revenue than what he has now. New York residents need to get real and live right all they see and do is live in a fantasy and that is there problem. You also need to get rid of that Mayor he is not good for NYC or anything else. You better hope he doesn’t let MS13 take you state over.
He has run out many businesses, with his high taxes and restrictions. Now, as most DEMON-O-RATS, he’s playing the “blame game.”
It’s just a damn shame that late term abortion (infanticide) was not legal when his mom was giving birth to him.