Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York has just released his plans for the coming year.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure

Infrastructure? Oh-oh, hide your wallet, you know what that means!

“The young girl who sleeps in a homeless shelter tonight is our daughter,” he said. “The farmer in the Southern Tier who is struggling to make ends meet, that farmer is our brother. The child who lives in poverty in Rochester today is our child.”

Cuomo sure has a lot of kids. What is his plan to help them?

The bitterest fight in Albany could come on education reform. Though Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, offered up $1.1 billion in new school aid, he attached strings that could kill the deal for allies of the teachers’ unions in the Assembly: a much more rigorous teacher evaluation system to replace the current one, new hurdles for teachers on the path to tenure, and an expansion by 100 of the limit on the number of charter schools statewide.

These are actually not bad ideas. It's better to have 100 more charter schools than 100 fewer ones. But why have any limit at all? Here's a really radical idea -- let people and companies set up as many schools as they like. There are no limits on the numbers of supermarkets or shoe stores, what business does the government have limiting the number of charter schools?

Also, more rigorous teacher evaluations are good, but without the power to fire bad teachers, it doesn't mean a whole lot. So far, I don't see how Cuomo's plans are going to help the poor child in poverty in Rochester.

“Don’t ask the taxpayers of New York to throw good money after bad,” he said. “We’ve done that for decades. Let’s make the hard choices once.”

Bravo!!! He sounds like a fiscal conservative! Please, I hope the next sentence doesn't disappoint!

Over all, the governor’s spending plan totals $150 billion, an increase of 4.9 percent compared with the current year.

Wait. A 5% increase in spending in one year? That's huge! Why not use some of the money to reduce taxes? New York has very high tax rates--the top state income tax rate is 9%, and the top city rate, for those who unfortunate enough to live in New York City, is nearly 4%, for a top city and state tax rate of nearly 13%! If Cuomo has enough money to increase spending 5% in one year, why not increase it less and lower taxes? I'll bet that would help stimulate job growth and get his daughter out of that homeless shelter!

Cuomo also proposed a tax cut for small businesses and a tax credit program that would provide an estimated $1,000 to homeowners with incomes below $250,000 and whose property tax burden exceeds 6 percent of their income.

How generous of him! But nowhere does he talk about lowering the tax rates.

Cuomo affirmed his call to raise the minimum wage, currently $8.75, to $11.50 in New York City and $10.50 in the rest of the state

If that passes, fewer businesses will create entry level jobs, and Cuomo's numerous daughters will have to stay in the homeless shelter and will only be able to make money to buy chocolate milk by selling kisses to dirty old men.

Mr. Cuomo’s 84-minute speech, delivered in a convention center adjacent to the Capitol, was meant to set the tone for the new legislative session and for the governor’s second term. His proposals and budget, which combined both his fondness for practical solutions and his knowledge of Albany deal making, were detailed in a written briefing book that ran more than 500 pages.

Was there anything in those 500 pages about stimulating job growth or helping businesses? ("See Appendix D--This page intentionally left blank").

Mr. Cuomo’s budget also included legislation, known as the Dream Act, that would expand state tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants

 Why is it when illegal aliens start dreaming, the money in my wallet starts sleepwalking?  Transferring money from taxpayers to citizens of other countries doesn't help New Yorkers.

Cuomo also has a plan to make upstate regions compete against one another to win $1.5 billion in economic development funds

Is this really the answer, to give money to county governments to spend to "create jobs"? Government doesn't create self-sustaining jobs, only the private sector does that. If you want to help the private sector create jobs, reduce regulation, and reduce taxes.  From a regulatory perspective, Cuomo had an opportunity to allow fracking in New York, which would have created thousands of jobs, but caved to pressure from former heroin addict Robert F Kennedy Jr and others in the Green lobby.

There's also another reason New York has been losing population relative to other states; it has the 8th highest top income tax rate in the nation, and if you live in New York City, it has the absolute highest tax rate in the country. No one lives there unless they are already wealthy, or poor, or have to work there because they work in finance.

Nothing Cuomo suggested in his state of the state speech would help create jobs. But I am sure you will only continue to hear what a marvelously successful governor he is. If he manages to serve out his term without being accused of a major crime, he is, by media definition, made of presidential timber.

How long is this sustainable? In a nutshell, New York continues to function only because of the location of the lucrative financial industry in New York City and the confiscatory rate of taxes that is imposed on it. Like a vampire, Cuomo's tax rates are slowly sucking the life out of the taxpayers to feed his ghoulish bureaucrats and zombie-like welfare recipients.

If you can think of a better metaphor to describe this situation, please let me know in the comments section.

Pedro Gonzales is editor of Newsmachete.com, the conservative news site.