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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 794342, member: 1644"]
Here is a great article that explains what I am referring to:

[url]http://www.ppinys.org/reports/2004/letupstate.pdf[/url]

"Left to its own devices, for example, Upstate would never have a Medicaid program that is by far the most expensive in the country — helping to push property
taxes to the highest levels in the nation. Upstate wouldn’t have kept tolls on the Thruway after the early 1990s, when the last bonds were being paid off and
the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was extracting $5 billion in federal funds to help remove the tolls. Upstate probably wouldn’t have laws (e.g., the Triborough
provision) giving public-employee unions such decisive leverage to drive up local government costs, and to block consolidation or privatization of services.

Upstate wouldn’t choose energy policies that push basic industrial electric rates about 17 percent above the national average — while a competitor like Ohio
has rates below the national average. It wouldn’t enact something like...law(s) on redeveloping brownfields, which was designed to fit property values in
New York City, but which has made brownfields redevelopment almost cost prohibitive in Upstate cities with undeveloped land nearby. It would not administer
“prevailing wage” laws in ways that impose urban wage levels on rural construction projects. It wouldn’t have state Labor Department rules requiring that
higher-wage steelworkers (rather than glaziers) install windows in public-works projects. It wouldn’t have runaway tort laws that keep car leases from Upstate
drivers, and impose unlimited liability on construction contractors."
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