Kathy Hochul offers empty promises and a blueprint for New Yorks failure

Gov.Hochul’s State of the State address Tuesday was another display of empty promises and political posturing.Beneath the rhetoric lies the harsh truth: This administration and the far-left legislature majorities continue to fail New Yorkers.

Instead of bold solutions, Hochul doubled down on the same disastrous policies that have made our state unaffordable, unsafe and unlivable.Though the governor frequently talks about affordability, New York remains the highest-taxed state in the nation.Skyrocketing property taxes are squeezing family budgets, small businesses are strangled by red tape, and residents are fleeing at a record pace.Kathy Hochul’s solution? More spending and bureaucracy. Hochul and the Albany Democratic establishment haven’t solved the issues of affordability and crime that are most important to New Yorkers.They’ve done the opposite.Their hyper-politicized agenda has exacerbated these issues and driven our state deeper into the hole.If we could spend our way to a more affordable state, New York would already lead the nation.

Instead, Albany’s Democrat-led policies have made us America’s most expensive, most taxed, most regulated and least free state.The governor’s tone-deaf approach to public safety is equally alarming.She claims to care about safer streets and subways while standing by policies like cashless bail and discovery reform, which have handcuffed law enforcement and emboldened criminals.New Yorkers deserve better than living in fear that they will be the next victim of a horrific, violent crime on their commute to work. Hochul’s feeble attempt to address the migrant crisis is pure political theatre: Instead of holding the Biden-Harris administration accountable for their open-border disaster, she wants New Yorkers to foot the bill for the burden this crisis places on local governments and law enforcement.Once again, hardworking taxpayers are left picking up the tab for Albany’s failures.Despite serving as the state�...