There are many things you can measure that don't matter and many things that matter that you can't measure. You can't measure quality of life simply through the economic lens. There is no one measure that tells the whole story. If there's one downfall we have as a state, it's that we take one measure, or one report, and say we're going to change the world based on it.

It's one of those items that will change it gradually through time.

This new measure dramatically reforms what was one of the fastest growing fiscal responsibilities for New York's property taxpayers and local governments and reverses that trend by capping the local share and providing counties with significant and immediate relief, ... We're confident that this will provide counties the opportunity to restrain spending growth and provide taxpayers property tax relief.

It was not illegal. I know they're going to measure. Why would I go out with an illegal stick? What do you think I am? Stupid?

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life

By any measure what we are putting forward is a very deep cut,