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The #nybudget will create a new Office of Cannabis Management. New York plans to regulate cannabis like alcohol, with three tiers: producers, distributors, retailers.
There will be taxes on flowers used for growing, and a 22% levy on wholesale marijuana, per budget documents.
The #nybudget calls for congestion pricing tolls on vehicles entering Manhattan south of 60th Street. @NYGovCuomo said today that would raise $15 billion for capital construction.
He promises to work with legislators to re-structure the @MTA, but in briefing documents, no deets.
.@NYGovCuomo notes that today is the 10th anniversary of the enactment of his strict gun control bill, the SAFE Act.
He’s now calling for a ban on bump stocks, a red flag bill and longer background checks before a firearm purchase.
Cuomo: “Let’s launch the next phase of a Green New Deal mandating 100% power by 2040 – the fastest in the United States of America – and lead the way. Lead the way to eliminating our carbon footprint.”
Cuomo: “Let’s authorize sports betting in the upstate casinos. It’s here, it’s a reality, and it will help generate activity in those casinos.”
LOTS of policy stuff in the #nybudget. “It’s a lot. No doubt about it. But there’s been a lot that’s been bottled up for many, many years that we couldn’t get done. In many ways, I feel the state has now been liberated with the Senate Democratic caucus.”https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-legal-pot-to-a-plastic-bags-ban-new-york-budget-to-cover-more-than-just-money-11547512219 …
Cuomo on school funding: “The assumption we have is if we fund the poorer school districts, they would turn around and fund the poorer schools in their districts.” “It was a bad assumption.”
Cuomo says he is pushing a “new formula, the education equity formula.” This is going to set off an epic fight with teachers and school officials.
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