CUOMO TURNS HIS BACK ON NEW YORK'S SMALL BUSINESS.
" Nursing Home Deaths, Allegations Of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior, & Now With Cuomo's Plan To Give Undocumented Workers A One-Time Cash Payment, Rather Than Supporting Small Businesses ".
April 10, 2021: Investigative Reporting By: Leonard Madison With Art Fletcher For: Englebrook Independent News:
With the announcement on Thursday from New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo. That he plans to give a one time cash relief payment of $ 15,600.00 to undocumented workers. Which will cost New York's tax payers 2.1 billion dollars. Along with this, Cuomo has placed another 1 billion dollars for small business relief. His answer how to pay for this is, " By Raising Taxes ".
For over a year Cuomo's restrictions placed upon small businesses, due to the Pandemic. Restrictions that caused thousands of small businesses to permanently close. Although Federal and State Government, initiated various relief programs. These programs supplied financial aid, but not enough to sustain their operational costs.
During the Pandemic we traveled throughout New York City and New Jersey. To investigate the financial ramification placed on small businesses due to covid restrictions. We found even with the financial aid given to many businesses, they continued to close at a rate never seen before. For example in the food service industries, restaurants and bars were given aid such as the paycheck protection plan and some other monies allowing them to cover some of their expenses.
Thousands of these establishments were forced to set up out- door dinning alternatives, with costs that sometimes exceeded tens of thousands of dollars. Many of these owners borrowed money against their homes to pay the costs of these alternative solutions. Only to have capacity restrictions placed again upon them. This along with local building and health code regulations. Made them unable to cover their loan obligations, forcing them to close.
With Cuomo's Thursday's announcement we decided to take another look at the ramifications to small businesses due to the pandemic. Are last investigation was during the month of December of 2020. So, again we set out and traveled to locations in the same cities and towns in New York and New Jersey. We discovered that since our last investigative journey. There has been a 13 percent increase in business closures throughout the two states.
Cuomo's proposed tax increases to pay for this plan, will inevitably lead to hundreds maybe even thousands of business closures throughout New York.
There can be one reason why Cuomo would give 2.1 billion to undocumented workers. With only 1 billion in aid to small businesses, it's become apparent that Governor Cuomo has turned his back on New York's small business community. So that along with other democratic blue states, Cuomo, President Biden and Congresses H.R.1 Bill, ensures the Democratic hold and inevitably takeover of government.
Filed Under: Cuomo, New York, Relief Package: