Skelos: MTA tax repeal drive may be delayed
Photo credit: AP | Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre), walks to a meeting with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at the Capitol in Albany. (March 25, 2011)
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ALBANY -- Repeal of the MTA payroll tax -- a hot issue in Long Island Senate elections last fall -- may have to wait until next year, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said Wednesday.
Skelos said it was possible to try to scrap the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tax in the next three months of the legislatures' session. But that might give him less leverage over Assembly Democrats,...
