Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he’s considering a wide variety of revenue raising options, from his own ideas for creating private sector jobs to the millionaire tax pushed by the Assembly’s Democratic majority.
In a round of radio interviews today, Cuomo wouldn’t rule out anything, including the millionaire tax he strongly opposed in the current budget.
The Democratic governor said he’s open to all the “best thinking” as weakening state revenues have created an unexpected deficit and there’s a deficit of more than $3 billion forecast in the next fiscal year.
But Cuomo, who has pledged not to raise taxes, wouldn’t back any tax proposal in the interviews.
He’s crafting his 2012-13 budget proposal now for the legislative session that begins in January.
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