Joe Rand.Your Taxes Up.
He didn't come to cut your taxes. He came from a village that learned how to raise them.
First they raised the village.
Nyack was supposed to be the proof of competence. Instead it became a receipt. As Mayor of Nyack, Joe Rand approved budgets that drove spending more than 21 percent — then stacked on new taxes and fees.
The 21 percent was not the end of it — because the budget was never enough. There was a push to put the same hotel levy on short-term rentals, plus new charges for outdoor dining and special events. The nickel-and-dime that never stays a nickel.
This is the governing instinct. Not a one-time squeeze. A habit.
If he needed more money in a village, he will not discover restraint in the State Senate.
Every hotel night, every boat slip, every hour at the Senior Center — treated as revenue. Joe Rand. Your taxes up.
Albany does not invent new politicians. It enlarges the ones who already sent the bill.
Then he took the radical line.
Joe Rand did not stumble onto the Working Families Party line. He asked for it. He won it. He said he was proud to carry it. Two ballot lines this November — and one of them is the WFP.
A candidate is judged by the company he keeps. Here is the company.
- The NY Health Act — the largest tax increase in state history.
- Defund the police.
- Abolish prisons.
- Cashless bail.
- Welfare for people in the country illegally.
- Blocking ICE from removing criminal illegal aliens.
You do not accept a party's endorsement and reject its platform. You accept the platform.
This is not guilt by association. It is guilt by signature.
He wanted the line. He got the line. Now the line comes with him to Albany.
Then they came for the tree.
Cut down a tree on your own land, and under the rules of Rand's Nyack the village can put a price on it. Not the county. Not the state. Your local government, reaching past the curb and into the backyard.
A permit to touch what you already own. A replacement dictated to you. Or a check written to a village fund. Three doors, and every one of them costs money.
When a government charges you to remove your own tree, it is not protecting the canopy. It is testing how far it can reach.
If the yard is not off-limits, nothing is.
This is the mindset heading to the State Senate. Joe Rand. Your taxes up — right down to the tree line.
Nyack was the showroom.
Everything above happened in one small village. That was the pilot program. The method is already written down:
- Grow the budget.
- Invent the tax.
- Raise the fee.
- Take the WFP line.
- Charge the homeowner for the tree.
Now he wants the bigger map — from Hudson across the rest of Rockland. Same hand. Bigger lever.
A politician who ran out of things to tax in a village will not run out of things to tax in a district.
Before you vote.
Do not buy the brochure. Buy the record. Four lines, and every one of them is documented:
- Village spending up more than 21 percent.
- Taxes and fees up — hotel, boat slips, the Senior Center, and more.
- The Working Families Party on the ballot right next to his name.
- Your tree on the invoice.
Each item stands on its own. Put together, they answer a single question before you ever ask it:
When Joe Rand needs more money, whose wallet does he reach for — his, or yours?
Joe Rand is running for New York's 38th Senate District. The brochure is glossy. The record is not.
- Read the record.
- Follow the fees.
- Look twice.
Joe Rand. Your taxes up. Then vote.