Andy Cuomo tells out-of-state volunteers: 'Thanks, now pay us'

When New York needed help, Americans came together, traveled to the Big Apple, rolled up their PPEs [just kidding] and got to work. Out-of-state volunteers were there for New York.

No good deed goes unpunished, [H/T: WPIX, New York].

When the COVID-19 outbreak first hit New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio put out an all-points bulletin for as many volunteers as possible to boost their health-care resources.

Thousands of people made the journey, in many cases with the aid of their employers, who continued to pay their salaries while coming to the city's rescue. The death toll was worse in number than 911 but those who volunteered back in 2001 didn't have to pay taxes to the city and state they helped.

Now that the crisis has passed, Cuomo wants to give these heroic volunteers a souvenir of their time in the Empire State — a tax bill, as reported by WPIX:

Health care workers that came to New York to help fight the coronavirus pandemic at its epicenter will have to pay state taxes, according to the governor. 

He addressed the issues Tuesday at a news conference. 

“We’re not in a position to provide any subsidies right now because we have a $13 billion deficit,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “So there’s a lot of good things I’d like to do, and if we get federal funding, we can do, but it would be irresponsible for me to sit here looking at a $13 billion deficit and say I’m gonna spend more money, when I can’t even pay the essential services.”

So, in spite of the fact that Cuomo asked people to come to New York from out of state to help them fight the coronavirus, he will have them pay New York state taxes, even on the income they made from their home state that paid them while helping New York.

You cannot make this stuff up.

This garbage was news to the volunteers, including those at Samaritan’s Purse. They had set up a temporary hospital in New York City's Central Park and for their Christian aide were blasted by secular leftists who called them haters because the Bible views homosexual behavior as a sin.

They were in New York to help, regardless of the sexual orientations of those they assisted. And no one told Ken Isaacs, the vice president of Samaritan's Purse, that the workers would create a tax liability on Day 15 that rates as one of the highest in the nation.

Isaacs told PIX 11 he was shocked to learn that workers who volunteered to come to the state would have to pay the state’s income tax.

“Our financial comptroller called me, and he said, ‘Do you know that all of you are going to be liable for New York state income tax?’ I said, ‘What?’ [The comptroller] said, ‘Yeah, there’s a law. If you work in New York State for more than 14 days, you have to pay state income tax,'” Isaacs said.

At a time when so many regulations have been waived in order to expedite ways and means of fighting the pandemic, Gov. Cuomo stands out like an ass trying to pass through the eye of a needle.

Isaacs also noted that the situation could be a nightmare for organizations and their employees as they deal with the “bureaucracy and the paperwork” that comes with filing in multiple states.

Another eye-opener for Samaritan's Purse was when NYC council speaker the execrable Corey Johnson demanded their ejection, calling the Christian community-service group “bigoted, hate-spewing” for their acceptance of traditional Christian sexuality of "hate the sin, love the sinner."

Their continued presence here is an affront to our values of inclusion, and is painful for all New Yorkers who care deeply about the LGBTQ community. 2/
— NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson (@NYCSpeakerCoJo) May 1, 2020

What a douche nozzle, not to mention how Cuomo is putting the screws to the people who helped his state at a time when it needed it most.

One can only imagine what response New York will get in the future when they need help. While Cuomo was surprised to learn that more people died who stayed at home than were out in the fresh air, he should not be surprised when he rings the alarm bell and all he hears is the sound of one hand clapping.



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Comrade de Blasio shows his incredible ignorance of Christianity

Acting Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio [acting is used to denote that he is merely playing the part of being a real mayor--in truth, he's an idiot] said Tuesday that he is planning to monitor Samaritan's Purse, a charitable Christian organization that has set up a field hospital in New York's Central Park to help the city deal with the Chinese Communist coronavirus.

The tall mayor [his only asset] wants to ensure that there is no discrimination going on amid the crisis, and that the organization's doctors and other workers are not refusing to help non Christians and the LGBTQ sinners who partake in practices that are considered sinful in the Bible.

What this moron doesn't realize is that it's more sinful not to help those in dire need that can be helped--it's a little something called "being a good Christian"--and you don't hate the sinner, you hate the sin. But de Blasio is merely tall; though not bright.

De Blasio said he found it “very troubling” to learn of Mr. Graham’s past statements condemning homosexuality and Islam and said he reached out to the CEO of the Mount Sinai system, Dr. Ken Davis, who “assured” him they had a written agreement with Samaritan’s Purse that “there’s going to be no discrimination whatsoever.” There never is, but don't count on de Blasio doing his research on the group.

According to both the Old and New Testaments, homosexuality is a sin; and since Franklin Graham is a religious Christian, he just calls it as he sees it. Insofar as Islam is concerned, he does not criticize the religion as such, just the jihad part that kills the innocent.

De Blasio is a mouth-breather.

“I said immediately to my team that we had to find out exactly what was happening,” the mayor said, according to The New York Post. “Was there going to be an approach that was truly consistent with the values and the laws in New York City, that everyone would be served and served equally?" De Blasio's values are on the left--he, like Bernie Sanders, supported the brutal Sandinista Communists, so it's funny to hear this guy moralize.

“We’ve received those assurances from the organization,” the incompetent mayor said.

Mr. de Blasio added that he would be sending staff over to “monitor” the park facility.

“I am very concerned that this is done right. But if it is done right, we need all the help we can get,” he said.

Samaritan's Purse has come under vicious criticism from the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender and Queer community because of its unapologetic support for traditional marriage.

A statement on Samaritan Purse's website reads,

“We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.”

Nothing personal; just religion.

And now a Catholic group is slamming de Blasio for questioning Samaritan Purse's charity work and called the mayor anti-Christian after questioning whether the 68-bed field hospital would treat all patients equally.

William Donohue, the president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, slammed de Blasio and several other New York leaders for questioning the motives behind Graham's charitable gesture.

"When [de Blasio] first learned of the relief efforts of Samaritan's Purse, he acted as if New York has been invaded by a hostile force," Donohue told Fox News.

Donohue also criticized de Blasio over his incompetent initial handling of coronavirus, which other critics called clumsy and uninformed with some not saying that he appears to have his head stuck up his nether regions.

"What makes de Blasio's attack on Graham most despicable is his failure to take coronavirus seriously," Donohue said. "His record is an utter disgrace."

The mayor wasn't the only New York leader unsure of Samaritan's Purse.

On Monday, New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman demanded Graham "publicly assure LGBTQ New Yorkers that they will receive the state treatment as anyone else at the Central Park field hospital."

Hoylman, who is a homosexual, told NBC News that coronavirus is "too delicate to leave it to televangelists, purveyors of the faith, to handle out medical needs."

Except that Franklin Graham is not a televangelist and the medical needs are being "handed out" by medical doctors.

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