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County Makes Citizens Fish for Information
For the amount of taxpayer money to be spent on the county executive’s vanity aquarium, taxpayers are being kept in the dark on updates. Where are the designs for the aquarium that were to be released this summer? Where are the updated project costs? In June, Republican legislators approved a…
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Sales Tax Comes from Residents, not Tourists
The math doesn’t add up to me. Onondaga County Executive McMahon wants to spend $85 million on an aquarium with taxpayer money. They estimate it could generate $796,000 in annual sales and hotel tax revenue, which would be 0.2% of the sales tax we already generate. If the aquarium generates $796,000 in…
