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What a difference 9 years make.
Nine years ago, when a fellow Democrat inhabited the county executive’s office, Assemblyman Paul A. Tokasz said the income from the “temporary” sales tax penny should stay with County Hall and not be shared with Buffalo.
“If we give the city a portion of the sales tax, other communities have to pay more. So property taxes will go up,” Tokasz told The Buffalo News in 1997, siding with then-County Executive Dennis T. Gorski in resisting pleas to share the sales tax fortune.
This year, Tokasz takes a different stance.
He says county officials in 2007 must share about $30 million in sales tax income - $1 of every $4 the penny generates - with Buffalo and other cities, towns and villages.
“This really is about fairness,” he has said during several interviews this year.
What changed?
What a fascinating question! Tell us, Mr. Assemblyman. What has changed?
