The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.
Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.
My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.
I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive.
New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.
That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.
I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.
What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.
In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.
If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.
