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Is investing in New York City a bad thing? Some progressives seem to think so: Theyre looking to tax it.

The left-leaning Fiscal Policy Institute and state Sen. Brad Hoylman are pushing a new tax aimed at foreigners who have the audacity to shell out big money on city apartments.

Under the plan, the city would levy a surcharge of between 0.5 percent and 4 percent on city co-ops and condos worth $5 million or more. The presumption is that most of these units are owned by foreigners and used as pieds--terre.

State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) says he will introduce a pied--terre bill in the state Legislature soon. The tax is needed, he says, because foreigners arent paying income taxes but are nonetheless utilizing city services everything from our infrastructure to our police force.

Actually, if theyre not in the city using their apartments much, theyre not likely to be using many city services much, either.

So what this boils down to is out-of-town investors handing over money to the city, costing taxpayers little extra and still paying city property taxes. Why would anyone think these folks should pay more?

What Hoylman and the institute really want, of course, is the $665 million a year the tax is expected to raise from folks who dont vote here. But New Yorks sky-high taxes are already a disincentive to invest here. Adding a surcharge will only make matters worse.

Progressives dont understand that having investors spend money here boosting property values and the economy is good for the city. If they did, maybe theyd be calling for lower taxes for a change.

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The All Progressives Congress in Ogun State has described as wishful thinking the plot by the opposition to defeat it in the coming election.

This is coming against the background of a purported plan by both the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state to merge to confront the ruling party.

President Jonathan was reported to have endorsed a work arrangement between PDP and LP aimed at shoring up the chances of the former to produce the next governor of the state.

However APC in a statement by its publicity secretary in the state, Mr Sola Lawal, dismissed the plot,saying it would not succeed.

According to the APC, existing chaotic internal dynamics within the two opposition parties would end up frustrating any effort at any such unholy gang up.

The party further stated that both PDP and LP had always worked together in the state adding that such scenario has never produced any worthwhile result for them.

He said, In 2011 all the present members of PDP and LP in Ogun State were all in PDP with only a sprinkling of them in PPN, yet defunct ACN, a precursor to APC, trounced them.

Without the executive power of government in its hands the APC pummelled the combined forces of the opposition.

Now consider how much easier it will be with the superlative performance of the Amosun administration to send the send them to their electoral grave.

The party likened the gang up against Amosun to that between the fraudster and the thief against the owner of the property.

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The All Progressives Congress has strongly condemned theendorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate ofthe PDP for next years presidential election, to the exclusion of allother candidates, calling the endorsement nothing but a mockery ofdemocracy.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National PublicitySecretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said the endorsementhas come at a great price to Nigerians, considering the obvious dealsthat were struck to make President Jonathan the sole PDP candidate.

It said the parody of democracy that the endorsement represents hasexposed the shameless hypocrisy of the PDP, which is ever so eager toaccuse other parties of lacking in internal democracy.

It said, Obviously, those fellows in the PDP have never heard of the sayingthat those who must come to equity must come with clean hands. PDP,where is your own internal democracy now that you have turned yourparty into a fiefdom controlled by one and only one person only?

While endorsements are part and parcel of democracy, they are neverdone to the exclusion of other candidates. This is simply notdemocratic. When then candidate Barrack Obama was endorsed by hispartys bigwigs to contest the US Presidency, the party never excludedHillary Clinton from its primaries. Thats how it is done.

The party said the price being paid for Jonathans endorsement byNigeria is simply too heavy, considering that the PDP Governors whospearheaded the endorsement have now secured perpetual immunity fromprosecution by anti-graft bodies, including the EFCC and the ICPC; theautomatic tickets for all first-term PDP Governors, whether or not they have performed, the automatic tickets for all PDP Governorsrunning for the Senate, as well as the free ride back to the UpperChamber for Senate President David Mark.

It is now an Open Sesame for the PDP Governors, who have no pryinganti-corruption agencies watching over their shoulders. They can nowsimply see the commonwealth as an extension of their deep pockets. Theendorsement is also a vote of approval for the proceeds of corruptionthat have been powering the noisy and outrageous Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, it said.

APC accused President Jonathan of desecrating the countrys democracybecause of his desperation for re-election, adding: It is a cruelirony that a man who has benefited, more than anyone else, from thisdemocracy has been the one who has been doing everything possible toundermine it.

The party said President Jonathan has also abandoned domestic issueswhile seeking international relevance, in a clear negation of theaphorism that charity begins at home.

This President has basically abandoned governance. Unprecedentedcorruption is mounting, insecurity stalks the land and Nigerians gropein darkness as power generation has plummeted. This President has yetto tell Nigerians the full involvement of his government in the 9.3million dollars that was illegally ferried to South Africa on aprivate jet. This President has yet to tell Nigerians why he hascontinued to hobnob with an alleged sponsor of Boko Haram, who is supposed to be under a probe by his Administration. Yet, he is eagerto attend meetings with serious-minded leaders who have done well fortheir own people.

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Debate is heating up over a proposed needle and syringe program at a Canberra prison. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones

The Canberra Liberals have called on the ACT government to abandon plans to trial a needle exchange program in the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison, saying the territory should not be "crash test dummies" for new policies.

A needle and syringe program at the Alexander Maconochie Centre was part of an agreement struck by Labor and the Greens on forming a minority government after the 2012 ACT election.

However, attempts by the government to put the plan in place have stalled in the face of fierce opposition from prison guards and their union, the CPSU.

Corrections Minister Shane Rattenbury said both Labor and the Greens continued to stand behind their plan, saying it was addressing a public health issue.

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But the Liberals' Andrew Wall called on the ACT government to abandon the program in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, saying the government had failed to consider guards' views.

"The ACT should not continually be called upon to be the crash test dummies for ideologically driven policy, or for policy that is at the behest of the solitary ACT Green, balance of power holder," he said.

The opposition's motion was defeated by a vote of nine to eight, but Mr Wall said it would not be the end of their campaign over the issue.

"There'll be continued motions in Parliament, further questions, scrutiny and a public campaign into the future, calling for this to be abandoned," he said.

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