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Wyoming, Erie, Livingston, Ontario Counties, NY | November 7, 2006 Election |
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The Growth of Good Paying JobsBy Tom CaseyCandidate for State Senator; District 59 |
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A. Careful Investment of public dollars B. Aggressive Business Support C. Reduction of Energy Costs D. Workman's Comp Cost Reductions E. Reduction of the Highest combined Local/State Taxes in the Country1. The growth of good-paying jobs requires five items: A. Careful investment of public dollars through local business oversight committees to spur good paying job growth (not "silver-bullet" retail projects that compete with existing retail business and create lower-paying retail jobs) + government subsidies must be limited to proven, good paying, job-creating or preserving investments B. Aggressive business support by responsive, dedicated, extra-effort business development employees to research and package proposals and to cut through red tape C. Reduction of Energy Costs - Improve utility efficiency/competitiveness through Public Service Commission regulatory reform for the operation of our granted monopolies including required bidding of service contracts for monopoly areas based on NYS established values of existing infrastructure -- Increase ability of utilities to expand capacity and address transmission bottlenecks -- Reclaim the 70 megawatts of Niagara power given to the entire state for its originally intended use within 30 miles of Niagara Falls
D. Workman's comp cost reduction, E. Reduction of the highest local/state combined taxes in the nation by: 1) State Costs
(a) Constitutional amendment to require
-Debt -- Elimination of all back-door borrowing, define debt to
-On time budgets or last year's budget without inflation is automatic,
(b) Budget Reforms
State budgets and laws (c) Reducing Cost of Medicaid + Full payment by NYS. Monitor effectiveness of Medicaid Fraud Inspector, reduce hiding of assets for nursing homes, require managed care, allow counties flexibility in management and benefits, and review if benefits (optional) are comparable to average private sector insurance? Review eligibility guidelines based on income, residency, marriage responsibilities and residency. As soon as possible health care should be resolved at the Federal level (see Federal lobbying section at end). (d) Require effectiveness performance assessment of all State Agencies based on costs and analysis by comptroller's office or independent budget office (e) Significant reduction of "pork barrel" spending to items only with a PROVEN good job creation impact 2) State and local government costs (a) Pension reform + employees must contribute during all time working if want defined benefit pension; no pension increase if the highest (often) last 3 years base salary is increased with overtime, stipends, or second government job; and no COLA for a number of years.
(b) Amend labor laws where necessary to improve fairness of public sector work force competition relative to private sector counterparts. Have these laws led to a greater number of local government employees than local governments in other states and higher compensation for similar services? Have our laws led to higher compensation and benefits than the same private sector employees as indicated in recent studies? 3) Local Government Costs (a) No local mandates + Medicaid paid 100% by NYS in exchange for local cost efficiencies (b) Incentives to regionalize services and merge municipalities if it is proven this will save money |
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