Taxpayer meals fed upstate economic efforts

“After all, the economic development would be to their benefit, as well as the state's.”

ALBANY - The head of the state's effort to revive the upstate economy spent thousands of taxpayer dollars in his first year on the job paying for the meals of business leaders, economic development officials ... via Journal News

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New York is the highest taxed state in the nation, Most of it is WASTED. This is why the population is declining, citizens are getting tired of it.