Issue Position: Working For The Taxpayer

Issue Position

Ken Zebrowski gets it. He understands that Rockland County is a great place to live, work and raise your children. However, he also understands that it is getting more difficult for residents to make ends meet. That's why Ken's record balances fiscal discipline with protecting our schools and communities.

Assemblyman Zebrowski has fought for a fair income tax code and decreased income tax rates to their lowest in over 65 years. Zebrowski has successfully preserved the STAR property tax exemptions which help middle class families with the high property tax burden. He has been a strong opponent of the MTA payroll tax and in addition to calling for its repeal has successfully fought for exemptions from the tax to schools and small businesses.

In Rockland County and the lower Hudson Valley, property taxes are rising at an unsustainable rate. Ken has advocated for fundamental changes to the property tax system and the way our schools are funded. He supports a wide range of property tax relief proposals including the tax cap and a "circuit breaker" tax cap which caps your property taxes at a percentage of your income. Ken is also working with an upstate Assemblyman on a plan to get the State to pay the baseline cost of education.

Ken continues to fight for Rockland's fair share of State funding to both provide the best education for our children and to keep local property taxes down. In this year's budget, Ken advocated for additional school aid funding; bringing an additional $17 million to Rockland schools.

Ken has voted and passed four consecutive on-time budgets which has limited State spending growth. He knows that taxpayer dollars are scarce which is why he has sponsored a bill that calls for an "asset test" on any resident applying for social service benefits to ensure that these funds are not paying for people who have sufficient resources of their own.

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