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Jump to full article: (Long Island, NY) Newsday, 2009-06-25
Author: WILLIAM MURPHY
Intro: Youth groups and other social services would be the first victims of the State Legislature's failure to pass a $2 per pack cigarette tax that Nassau County had sought.
County Executive Thomas Suozzi had bet on the cigarette tax to plug a $27-million hole in this year's budget. Without it, funding for youth and other programs would be cut, which would force them to severely curtail services to thousands of clients. Suozzi said the cuts would begin July 1.
The Assembly adjourned this week without acting on the cigarette tax and the Senate hasn't taken it up. Though that was unrelated to the current leadership mess in the State Senate, two other measures being sought by Nassau County are tied up by that dispute.
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