According to a blog post on the Governor’s website:
“Hochul delivered her first proposal from the 2025 State of the State affordability agenda, and announced New York State’s first-ever Inflation Refund, which would deliver about $3 billion in direct payments to around 8.6 million New York taxpayers statewide in 2025. This new refund would send a payment of $300 to single taxpayers who make up to $150,000 per year, and a payment of $500 for joint tax filers making up to $300,000 per year. Today’s announcement is one of several proposals to help address the cost of living that will be unveiled as part of the Governor’s upcoming State of the State.”
During her announcement speech, Hochul attempted to level with New Yorkers, saying she knows how it feels and how scary the situation is. “Now I know that many of you feel you’re falling further and further behind, right? It’s a scary feeling,” she said. “The truth is, the last few years have been really, really tough for people. It’s stressful. Sometimes, it’s just so damn hard to make ends meet. You didn’t do anything wrong — you followed the rules, you work hard, and yet, ever since COVID, it seems like the prices of everything keep going up and up and up.”
Still attempting to sound relatable to the typical New Yorker, Hochul spoke of her family struggles when she was younger. She said,
“Growing up in a working-class family, I know that feeling of just not getting ahead. As a kid, I was embarrassed when my mother took us to used clothing stores. My mom also would take us to these discount stores and we didn’t go home with our clothes, she put them on LayAway — and she’d go every week to put a few more dollars down, until someday she could bring home the clothes for her six kids.
“I remember that like it was yesterday. And to feed a family of eight, Mom would go to this other discount store that sold day-old and week-old bread and stale Twinkies, and put them in our freezer so we could have them week after week. She bought them all at a great discount. Fried spam sandwiches and tuna casseroles were seen all too often at our dinner table — I didn’t like either one of them. But as my own family was starting out, we had our own challenges.
“[…] So I will say this, as New York’s first mom Governor, I know the stress parents feel intuitively — in my bones, I feel it. And that’s why I am so committed to helping New York families in any way possible — make your lives better in real, tangible ways. Putting money back in your pocket and in those of millions of hard-working New Yorkers,” she said.
Having tried to condescend to low-income New Yorkers struggling to get by, Hochul announced her stimulus check plans that she would like to see included in the 2025 budget plan.
She said, “I’m on your side. I believe that this extra inflation-driven sales tax revenue shouldn’t be spent by the state. It’s your money, and it should be back in your pockets.
“Back in your pockets. There you go. Show you the money, show you the money. This will help with your expenses to buy the groceries for your family. Here’s what I’m proposing in my Budget next month: That we will send you a check to buy your groceries for a month or whatever you want to spend it on.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
“We will send you a check to buy […] whatever you want to spend it on.” – so… fent and crack rocks then? Let’s be real here, that’s exactly where most of this money is going to go, or on things such as new TVs, Rolex watches and Louis Vuitton handbags.
$300 and $500 these days is a nothingburger; and assuming this proposal gets accepted, the dollar’s purchasing power will have already greatly eroded even further, and inflation will be much higher than due to interest rate cuts, quantitative easing and Trump’s tariffs.
As far as I am concerned, she might as well have said “let them eat cake” and it would have had a similar effect.
Proverbs 27:14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
This is paving the way for a return to more Covid-style handouts and getting the masses re-primed to start accepting their proto-universal basic income payments.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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