Hochul’s most insulting bid to buy your vote with your own money

Gov. Kathy Hochul's little one and earned earnings tax rebate checks will begin reaching mailboxes because the state begins early voting on Oct. 29.
AP Photograph/Hans Pennink

We’ve made an enormous deal of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s near-$1 billion slush fund, since it’s so unprecedented that a single politician have a lot taxpayer money to spend at her sole discretion. Nevertheless it might not be essentially the most insulting manner she’s attempting to purchase votes with the voters’ personal cash.

We’re not even speaking about different pork-barrel spending like providing $6 billion in subsidies for the Micron chip plant in Syracuse or related “financial improvement” schemes — which inevitably are web losers for all however the direct beneficiaries.

No, the most important insult is the practically $2 million in taxpayer-funded income-tax “rebate” checks (about $270 apiece) set to reach in voters’ mailboxes simply forward of Oct. 29, when early voting begins.

These observe the home-owner “tax rebate” checks that arrived within the mail a number of weeks earlier than the gov’s major in June. They got here with a brief word: “Gov. Hochul and the New York State Legislature are offering you this.”

No, they’re not. The taxpayers — you — are.

Don’t let Hochul purchase your vote with your personal cash. Educate Kat a lesson, and forged your poll for Lee Zeldin.