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with video 50 citizens sue to stop “corporate welfare”Updated: 08/04/2008 03:55 PMBy: Web Staff ALBANY, N.Y. — Frustrated your tax money isn’t going where you’d like it to go?A group of 50 people from across the state took matters into their own hands, suing state leaders for using their money to pay corporations to come [...]

GOVERNMENT: Hoping lawsuit frees New York from handouts Group trying to put an end to using public money for private projectsBy Mark ScheerNiagara Gazette A taxpayer advocacy group with roots in Lockport has taken its concerns over state-sponsored economic development projects to a court in Albany. Buffalo attorney James Ostrowski on Monday filed a lawsuit [...]

with video Group sues state leaders in attempt to stop “corporate welfare”08/04/2008 05:24 PMBy: Steve Ference ALBANY, N.Y. — “Our state government is stealing our money and giving it to corporations,” said Burr Deitz. He’s one of 50 New Yorkers suing various state leaders and businesses in a lawsuit they hope will transform business as [...]

Though Free NY is nonpartisan, there’s no denying that our philosophy is similar to Ron Paul

or as I like to call him, “Bee Bee.” Byron Brown has reached the midway point of his first term as mayor. How do you think he’s doing?

Why the Erie Canal should be sold is explained in this essay published by Free New York in 2006. We are still waiting for a rebuttal of any of the arguments made therein. Fat chance. Free BuffaloPolicy Report No. 3Economics in Five LessonsPower and Market Don

The State is struggling to figure out what to do with the Erie Canal system when the solution is bloody obvious. Sell it to the highest bidder. If a private owner subject to the discipline of the marketplace owned it, they would have an incentive to maximize its value to the world (the market). We [...]