Tom Golisano
Tom Golisano
Blase Thomas "Tom" Golisano is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Paychex, the second largest payroll processor in the United States and former co-ownerof the Buffalo Sabres hockey team and of the Buffalo Bandits lacrosse team. He sold the Sabres and its assets to multi-billionaire Terrence Pegula in February 2011. Golisano made a bid for the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in early 2012; but his group was eventually outbid by a consortium led by Magic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAviator
Date of Birth14 November 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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The state has turned us into a generation of gamblers.
It's concerning to me. I'm very interested in the topic. How I would get involved is undetermined at this point.
What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.
The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.
New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.
I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.
I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive.
There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.
That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.
Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.
Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.
If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.
If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.