Carl Paladino is a successful businessman, not a career politician. His top priority when he is elected Governor of New York will be to cut government spending by twenty percent in the first year of his administration. Not cap it - cut it.

There are over 1,000 New York State agencies, authorities and commissions. The Department of Health alone has 87 statutorily created administrative units including 46 counsels, 17 boards, six institutes, six committees, five facilities, two task forces, two offices, two advisory panels and a work group.

The proliferation of State government agencies results in overlap, duplication and waste. But it doesn't have to be that way under the right leader: New York’s governor has control over two-thirds of the state work force. Our next governor must reduce the size of government, cut spending and negotiate contracts more favorable to taxpayers.

In the first weeks of a Paladino administration, the need, function, efficiency and productivity of every department or division of every agency or authority of State government will be examined by professional teams of auditors and industrial engineers.

As a result, Carl will dissolve some government organizations completely. Others, like the New York State Thruway Authority and some Bridge and Tunnel Authorities, he will fold into the Department of Transportation. Innumerable duplicate administrative jobs and other operating costs will be cut away - and hundreds of high-paid political patronage jobs will disappear.

Carl will also cut State employment with layoffs and attrition. In an open letter to State employees, Carl said "we are not looking to arbitrarily eliminate jobs. We will obviously target unnecessary exempt positions and non-civil service titles for elimination first. Any good employees displaced by our action to maximize cost effectiveness will be given the first option to back fill other State positions vacated by attrition."

Carl will cut the fat and work to assure good employees have good jobs. But even drastic cuts will still leave us behind governments in our neighboring states - Ohio and Pennsylvania - which spend about 70 cents to the New York dollar. So Carl will work each day of his administration to shrink government and provide New Yorkers the relief we need.

A smaller, more efficient government will allow for a tax cut of ten percent in the first six months of Carl's administration. Those tax cuts will benefit every New Yorker in every area of the state including the poor and working class. The cuts will also help fuel the economic boom New York needs to save our State from insolvency.

Carl is a businessman, not a career politician. He's created hundreds of jobs; he's managed the budget of a half billion dollar business across 40 years. So you can count on it.

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