Today's Poll: Do you support New York's new family leave law?

Another NYS nanny law that will drive more businesses out of the State. High taxes, Obama Care and the boat load of regulations are having the effect of strangulating new and existing businesses.

I'm not sure if I should be surprised that the first complaint on this site about the law involves 'small business taxes' for something that doesn't actually add any taxes to business.

NYS latest tricks is to off load to local governments expenses that were previously covered by the State. This usually takes the form of increased fees, licensing fees etc. The latest trick is to change the way the wildly popular STAR and Extended STAR programs work. Instead of giving a percentage discount on your School Taxes, The State will now send you a check in the Fall to help you pay for the full value of your School Taxes. The hook is: the value of the check will be counted as income for Income Tax purposes possibility pushing you into a higher bracket when you do your annual tax forms. Unless you itemize your deductions, you will be paying on this so called benefit.

Exactly Jeff.
Tom, if you had bothered to actually pay attention to the news or look up how this is funded you would know that this is entirely funded by a small deduction from everyone's pay.
https://www.ny.gov/programs/paid-family-leave-strong-families-strong-ny

And....for those that criticize this as a 'nanny law', it's not important until you NEED it. If you have a parent or a child that is chronically or critically ill and you need to be with them, this is a godsend.

I can't believe the goberment can pass legislation that garnishes my wages. on principal what's to stop them from docking your paycheck $5.00 , $10.00, etc. to fund whatever they want ? a bridge fund, a homeland fund, a school fund. somehow they must have legal authority and I believe it has to do with the way they use certain words, ie obamacare. I am being forced to spend my money on a program I want nothing to do with. I wonder if I could claim it's against my religious belief to contribute to this nonsense.
I would be more than happy to contribute to a class action suit and sue the state.

sorry dave, I do not want nor will I ever NEED this program. may I opt out ?

Yes, David. You CAN "opt out".
WELCOME TO FLORIDA!

As for NY's seemingly never-ending "money grab", one word comes to mind - "Slu-u-u-r-r-p!"

lol .. ed you're a trip .... and you are right about leaving town ..but north Carolina is calling me.. I wonder how much i'll have to pay new York when I sell my house. I've heard the fee, tax, program, act or whatever they call it is pretty high. I look forward to the day I cross the state line for the last time.

"Forget" NC - at least until the christianist teabaggers are no longer in charge.

(Edited to remove crudity well deserved by the target, but crude nonetheless)

OK, David. Yeah, NC is an OK place - I guess. If you like cold weather, anyways.

Not to say that it doesn't get chilly in Port Charlotte, FL. In the winter of 2014, it actually got down to @ 34 degrees here - for 2 (nights) in a row. Of course, even then, the daytime temps were around 60. The "gulf" is about a half-hours drive from me. There's people swimming in it, even on the coldest of days (crazy "Yankees, I'm guessing).

But, being a "hardy" NY'er, you'll do fine in the higher latitudes ;)