From Democrat and Chronicle:

Democrats may not have proposed ways to cut the budget, but Senate Republicans did in fact release a plan today on how to cut the growing $3.1 billion to $4.1 billion budget gap.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos also noted that the current state budget raised spending by more than $13 billion and taxes by more than $8 billion.

“Just as I warned last spring, the Democrats’ decision to raise taxes and spending hurt our economy, caused more pain for taxpayers, and still left us with an enormous budget deficit,” Skelos said.

The Republicans’ plan includes cutting back what they estimate is $2.2 billion in general fund spending added to the current budget by Democrats and freezing state purchases of recreational lands to save $78 million.

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