New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is showing his gratitude to all the health care workers who volunteered to go to the state to help deal with the virus by threatening to go after them if they don’t pay their state taxes.
He tells the medical workers, “I'm not in a position to provide subsidies". And so they must pay New York state taxes, even if they don’t live there.
He adds, “it would be irresponsible for me to sit here looking at a $13 billion deficit and say I'm gonna spend more money, when I can't even pay the essential services."
The issue first came up when the temporary hospital in Central Park was being erected by Samaritan's Purse.
"Our financial comptroller called me," said Ken Isaacs, a vice president of the organization, "and he said, 'Do you know that all of you are going to be liable for New York state income tax?'
"I said, 'What?'" Isaacs continued. "[The comptroller] said, 'Yeah, there's a law. If you work in New York State for more than 14 days, you have to pay state income tax.'"
"I didn't know that," Isaacs told PIX11 News.
"What we're even more concerned about than the money," Isaacs continued, "is the bureaucracy, and the paperwork, and I think that once that's unleashed...once you start filing that, you have to do that for like a whole year or something."
Any out-of-state worker who came to New York to work on coronavirus relief is subjected to state taxes after working for 14-days.
There are thousands of medical workers who came to New York after Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for their help. And many of them are being paid from the companies in their home state. It’s tone deaf and completely ridiculous to thank the health care workers by vowing to go after them if they don’t pay their taxes.
Typical move by a liberal.