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Many New Yorkers are in for a surprise. State government is running out of money and won’t be able to pay all its bills. State tax revenues are forecast to be billion lower than projected spending over the next few years. The private sector economy has been declining since the real estate and stock market bubble burst in 2008 and state revenues have plummeted. Meanwhile Brian X. Foley and the democrats control our entire state government and nothing has been done to lower the cost of state and local government. Public pension costs are exploding and taxpayer contributions will triple in the next few years. Local governments and school districts are routinely hamstrung by Brian X. Foley and NY state laws dictating how employee contracts are negotiated, tilting the playing field in the direction of unions against the interests of taxpayers. State mandates drive up costs. In New York, local school property taxes are approximately 70 percent more than the national average. Property taxes in Suffolk ranks in the top 10 in the nation. But high taxes don’t only affect the affluent downstate counties. New York schools now spend an average of more than 000 per pupil, ranking first or second in the United States, but academic results are nowhere near the return on the investment. New York and its localities have among the highest debt in the nation including more than 0 billion in unfunded employee health insurance obligations. The state and its citizens have a mess on …