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Friday, December 29, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 52
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North Shore braces for tax bill impacts
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Nassau residents rush to pay general, school taxes before end of 2017 BY LU K E TOR R A N C E A sweeping tax bill passed by Congress last week will severely reduce the tax deductions available to Long Island residents, which has many locals spending the ďŹ nal days of 2017 trying to pre-pay their taxes. The bill was slammed by Long Island politicians across the political spectrum. “This legislation is a disgrace and a ‘punch-in-the-gut’ to middleclass families throughout Long Island and Queens,â€? Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) said in a statement. While no Democrat in Congress supported the bill, only a handful of Republicans joined them in voting against it. The 191 Democrats were joined by 12 Republicans in opposing the bill in the House of Representatives including Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and
Peter King (R-Seaford). Eleven of the 12 Republicans, the only members of their party in either the House or Senate vote against the bill, represented either New York, New Jersey or California. They opposed the bill for a similar reason: the deduction of state and local tax deductions, which will hit those three states particularly hard. Deductions for state individual income, sales and property taxes will be capped at $10,000. Zeldin called it a “geographic redistribution of wealth� during an interview with CNBC. King said in a statement that the $10,000 cap was not enough and claimed that the bill would reduce home values by as much as 10 to 15 percent. “The bottom line is that while most of the rest of the country will Continued on Page 45
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St. Mary’s High School chamber choir sang for North Shore University Hospital patients on Dec. 14 while members of the Don Monti Memorial Foundation handed out gifts and food around the hospital. See story on page 39.
Feinstein targets genes for personalized care their own genetic code, giving patients more personalized treatment plans. “The hope with computaA state grant to Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institute for tional genomics and precision Medical Research will help sci- medicine is we no longer treat entists treat patients based on you based upon your gender,
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your race, your age, or even things like where your tumor is from,�Dr. John Chelico, vice president of research IT and informatics at the Feinstein Institute, said. “Now we’re not lookContinued on Page 45
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