How!Many?!

A!Numbers!Guide!for!!
Lame"Duck!!
!!!!!!!Fence"Sitting!
Anti"Fair"Share!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Millionaires"Over"Middle"Class!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Members!of!Congress!

An Analysis of Bemogiaphics in New Yoik Congiessional Bistiicts Wheie Repiesentatives
Bave Not Suppoiteu Enuing the Bush Tax Cuts foi the Wealthy

Comparison!by!Congressional!District:!

Numbei of Constituents with Aujusteu uioss Incomes ovei $2Su,uuu
vs.
Numbei of Constituents Receiving Social Secuiity anu Neuicaie





Repoit by: New Yoikeis foi Fiscal Faiiness, Stiong Economy foi All Coalition & Citizen Action of New Yoik

Key!Points!

While negotiations between the White Bouse anu Congiessional Republicans anu Bemociats in Washington continue, it's impoitant foi New
Yoikeis to unueistanu the uiamatic uiffeience between those taigeteu by Republicans foi cuts - Social Secuiity anu Neuicaie beneficiaiies -
anu those taigeteu by Piesiuent 0bama foi tax incieases - the iichest top 2% of householus.

Actually, in most aieas of New Yoik, enuing the Bush tax cuts foi income ovei $2Su,uuu pei yeai woulu hit only the top 1% of taxpayeis. But
in all aieas of the state, Social Secuiity anu Neuicaie beneficiaiies aie a significant poition of the population, ianging fiom at least one in ten
iesiuents of Biooklyn to a quaitei of the population in gieatei Schenectauy to about a thiiu of the population in Bamilton County.

New!York!House!members!facing!votes!this!month!on!fiscal!cliff!proposals!must!put!fairness!first. Anu it's simply not faii to cut
benefits anu seivices foi tens of thousanus of seniois anu people with uisabilities while piotecting the wealth of a few hunuieu oi a few
thousanu wealthy New Yoikeis who coulu affoiu to pay moie.

! Representative Chris!Gibson, foi example: 99% of his constituents aie not wealthy. 0nly about 1%!would!pay!higher!taxes if
Clinton-eia tax iates weie iestoieu. But about!20%!of!his!constituents!would!face!cuts if plans to slash Social Secuiity anu
Neuicaie benefits weie implementeu.
!
! Foi Rep. Michael!Grimm, the figuies aie similai: only 1.3%!of!Staten!Island!taxpayers anu 1.1% of Biooklyn taxpayeis have
income ovei $2Su,uuu pei yeai. But 17% of Staten Islanueis ieceive Social Secuiity benefits anu about 1S% iely on Neuicaie, which
have been taigeteu foi cuts by the u0P.

! In most aieas of Rep.!Tom!Reeds uistiict, less!than!1% of taxpayeis have income ovei $2Su,uuu pei yeai. But in the same aieas
about!a!quarter!of!his!constituents!rely!on!Social!Security!and!20%!need!Medicare!benefits.

! Foi lame uuck Rep.!Ann!Marie!Buerkle, the figuies aie similai: a few hunuieu oi a few thousanu householus in most counties -
about!1% of taxpayeis - have income ovei $2Su,uuu pei yeai. But tens of thousanus of hei constituents - fiom 17"24%!iely on
Social Secuiity anu Neuicaie.

! Rep.!Richard!Hanna must know that 99% of his constituents aie not wealthy - in fact, in Beikimei County only 81 people, about!
0.3% have income ovei $2Su,uuu, anu in the iest of his uistiict it's 1%!or!less. But tens of thousanus iely on Social Secuiity anu
Neuicaie, incluuing up to a quaitei of Chenango County iesiuents.

! Lame-uuck Rep.!Nan!Hayworth iepiesents some paits of Westchestei County, wheie only 9S% of iesiuents aie not wealthy. But in
many aieas of hei foimei uistiict, only 2!or!3% of taxpayeis woulu pay highei iates unuei the 0bama plan. But about 15%!of!
residents in many aieas face cuts to Social Secuiity anu Neuicaie that Baywoith's Tea Paity colleagues have auvocateu. !
!
!
The!Cliff!

To avoiu automatic acioss-the-boaiu tax incieases anu spenuing cuts, Piesiuent 0bama has outlineu a stiategy that woulu ask the wealthiest
families in the 0niteu States to pay a little moie, iaising the cuiient tax iate fiom SS% to S9.6% foi top eaineis by iescinuing the Bush-eia
tax cuts foi families with aujusteu gioss incomes above $2Su,uuu.

The cuiient negotiations have incluueu an offei by Bouse Republicans to iaise the top tax thiesholu fiom $2Su,uuu to $1 million. New!York!
House!members!will!vote!on!this!proposal!this!week. If we inciease this thiesholu all the way to $1 million, the feueial goveinment
woulu lose appioximately $S66 billion in ievenue ovei 1u yeais (see CBPP Chait below). This woulu iequiie eithei moie spenuing cuts
(ovei anu above the $1.S billion that have alieauy been enacteu) which woulu have a uamaging impact on oui alieauy fiagile economy.




























Who!Benefits!the!Most!from!the!Bush!Tax!Cuts?!
The wealthiest wage eaineis have uispiopoitionately benefiteu fiom the tax cuts enacteu in 2uu1. The aveiage millionaiie gets a $128,8S2
tax cut annually (as ieflecteu in the chait below). Nany wealthy Ameiicans, like Waiien Buffet, have aigueu that they shoulu be paying
highei tax iates to make oui system faiiei to the aveiage citizen. Buffet points out that the wealthy pay fai less of a peicentage of theii
income in taxes than uo most miuule class Ameiicans.

We shoulu also note (as the chait on the next page shows) that the highei tax iates in the 199u's uiu not negatively impact oui economic
giowth - quite the opposite in fact - economic giowth was significantly highei uuiing peiious wheie the wealthy hau slightly highei tax
iates.



Proposed Extension of Bush Tax Cuts Favors Millionaires


Taxes No Barrier to Economic Growth in 90s













County! Median!
Household!
Income
1
!
Number!of!
Returns!with!AGI!
over!$250K
2
!
Percent!of!
Total!
Returns!
with!AGI!
over!$250K!
(2009)
3
!
Number!
(Percentage)!of!
Population!
receiving!Social!
Security!(2010)
4
!
Percentage!of!
Population!
receiving!
Medicare!(2010)
5
!
Albany $SS,78S 2169 1.6% 18.4% 1S.2%
Allegany $41,S84 SS u.S% 21.7% 17.7%
Bionx $S2,674 12u8 u.2% 12.7% 11.9%
Bioome $4S,92u 811 u.9% 2S.u% 2u.1%
Cattaiaugus $41,266 1SS u.S% 2S.u% 2u.u%
Cayuga $48,4SS 18S u.6% 2u.u% 17.1%
Chautauqua $S9,981 242 u.4% 2S.6% 2u.S%
Chemung $46,1Su S71 1.u% 2S.4% 19.6%
Chenango $41,418 8S u.4% 24.S% 2u.4%
Clinton $44,19S 266 u.8% 21.1% 17.S%
Columbia $Su,62u S42 1.2% 2S.S% 2u.1%
Coitlanu $41,9uS 97 u.S% 18.9% 1S.6%
Belawaie $4u,2S2 94 u.S% 2S.8% 19.9%
Butchess $68,8S1 2,188 1.7% 18.4% 16.1%
Eiie $46,77S 4,921 1.2% 21.S% 18.7%
Essex $42,uSS 111 u.7% 2S.1% 2u.S%
Fianklin $41,u62 67 u.4% 21.2% 16.6%
Fulton $S9,9S9 87 u.4% 2S.9% 18.1%
uenesee $47,S87 1S2 u.S% 21.2% 19.1%
uieene $4S,u7u 1S6 u.6% 2S.6% 19.S%
Bamilton $4S,474 *11+ u.S% S1.4% 27.2%
Beikimei $42,876 81 u.S% 2S.8% 18.S%
}effeison $4S,448 26S u.6% 17.8% 14.7%
Kings $42,u47 11,172 1.1% 12.u% 12.2%
Lewis $41,u9S S1 u.S% 19.S% 16.7%
Livingston $Su,u94 128 u.S% 19.S% 16.S%
Nauison $Su,27u 288 1.u% 18.S% 16.S%
Nonioe $49,S64 447S 1.S% 19.6% 16.7%
Nontgomeiy $4u,uSS 89 u.4% 2S.u% 21.4%
Nassau $9u,294 29,SuS 4.6% 18.S% 16.7%
New Yoik $6S,188 62,712 8.u% 14.9% 1S.1%
Niagaia $44,uu6 488 u.S% 2S.S% 19.7%
0neiua $46,4u9 7S1 u.7% 22.7% 19.9%
0nonuaga $Su,298 2919 1.4% 19.6% 16.9%
0ntaiio $SS,1S7 688 1.4% 21.4% 18.2%
0iange $6S,S12 2244 1.4% 1S.8% 1S.S%
0ileans $44,78S *Su+ u.2% 21.2% 16.6%
0swego $44,S71 172 u.S% 2u.9% 17.u%
0tsego $42,8S7 227 u.9% 22.S% 19.4%
Putnam $8S,S8S 1S19 2.9% 16.6% 1S.8%
Queens $S2,486 S977 u.6% 1S.S% 1S.1%
Rensselaei $S1,72u S27 u.7% 18.9% 16.S%
Richmonu $69,16S 2697 1.S% 17.S% 14.8%
Rocklanu $79,798 4S86 S.4% 16.6% 1S.u%
St Lawience $4u,uu8 1SS u.4% 21.6% 18.S%
Saiatoga $6S,Su8 1S6u 1.S% 18.8% 1S.S%
Schenectauy $S2,u62 684 1.u% 2u.2% 19.6%
Schohaiie $47,SSu SS u.4% 19.9% 18.1%
Schuylei $46,87u *2S+ u.S% 24.9% 18.9%
Seneca $4S,961 S7 u.4% 21.S% 16.6%

1, 2, S. New Yoik State Bepaitment of Taxation anu Finance: New Yoik Aujusteu uioss Income anu Tax Liability - Analysis of 2uu9
State Peisonal Income Tax Retuins by Place of Resiuence,
http:www.tax.ny.govieseaichstatsstat_pitcounty_of_iesiuenceanalysis_of_2uu9_state_peisonal_income_tax_ietuins_by_p
lace_of_iesiuence.htm

4, S. Stiengthen Social Secuiity, Social!Security,!Medicare!and!Medicaid!Work!for!New!York, 2u12,
http:www.stiengthensocialsecuiity.oigsitesuefaultfilesNewYoik2u12final.puf

* Accoiuing to the New Yoik State Bepaitment of Taxation anu Finance, in Bamilton, 0ileans, anu Schuylei counties, Tax Law seciecy
piovisions piohibit uisclosuie. The numbei iepoiteu uoes not incluue those with incomes $Suu,uuu anu above, anu those with
incomes between $2uu,uuu anu $249,uuu.









!
Steuben $4S,2S1 S1S u.8% 22.8% 19.4%
Suffolk $81,2SS 17,S69 2.S% 18.1% 1S.7%
Sullivan $4S,882 244 u.7% 21.7% 18.2%
Tioga $Su,u4S 1Su u.6% 22.2% 17.4%
Tompkins $Su,1S6 627 1.6% 14.4% 12.4%
0lstei $S1,194 797 1.u% 2u.6% 17.4%
Waiien $Su,269 S6u 1.1% 2S.2% 21.6%
Washington $46,629 74 u.S% 21.1% 18.S%
Wayne $Su,21S 166 u.4 22.8% 18.9%
Westchestei $76,99S S2,2S4 7.4% 16.8% 1S.S%
Wyoming $46,846 S6 u.S% 2u.S% 16.S%
How!Many?!!
US Representative Michael Grimm 13
th
Congressional District
How Many People In My District Make over $250,000?
Really? Thats All!


















!

County! Median!
Household!
Income!
Number!of!
Returns!
with!AGI!
over!$250K!
Percent!of!Returns!
with!AGI!over!$250K!
(2009)!
Percentage!
(number)!of!
Population!receiving!
Social!Security!
(2010)!
Percentage!
(number)!of!
Population!receiving!
Medicare!(2010)!
Richmond! $69,163! 2,697! 1.3%! 17.3%!(81,015)! 14.8%!(69,372)!
Kings! $42,047! 11,172! 1.1%! 12.0%!(301,475)! 12.2%!(305,573)!


How!Many?!
US Representative Tom Reed 23
rd

Congressional District
How Many People In My District Make over
$250,000?
Really? Thats All!


























County! Median!
Household!
Income!
Number!of!
Returns!
with!AGI!
over!$250K!
Percent!of!Total!
Returns!with!AGI!
over!$250K!
(2009)!
Number!
(Percentage)!of!
Population!
receiving!Social!
Security!(2010)!
Percentage!of!
Population!
receiving!
Medicare!(2010)!
CHAUTAUQUA! $40,639! 242! .4%! 31,820!(23.6%)! 20.3%!
CATTARAUGUS! $42,466! 153! .5%! 18,445!(23.0%)! 20.00%!
SENECA! $45,961! 57!! .4%! 7,575!(21.5%)! 16.60%!
TOMPKINS! $50,156! 627!! 1.6%! 14,600!(14.4%)! 12.40%!
CHEMUNG! $46,130! 371! .9%! 12,370!(23.4%)! 20.40%!
PART!OF!
ONTARIO!
$53,137! 688! 1.4%! 23,095!(21.4%)! 18.20%!
STEUBEN! $45,231! 313! .8%! 22,555!(22.8%)! 19.4%!
SCHUYLER! $46,870! n/a! n/a! 4,570!(24.9%)! 18.9%!


How!Many?!
US Representative Richard
Hanna 24th Congressional
District
How Many People In My
District Make over $250,000?
Really? Thats All!



County! Median!
Household!
Income!
Number!of!
Returns!with!AGI!
over!$250K!
Percent!of!
Total!
Returns!with!
AGI!over!
$250K!
(2009)!
Number!
(Percentage)!of!
Population!
receiving!Social!
Security!(2010)!
Percentage!of!
Population!
receiving!
Medicare!(2010)!
BROOME! $43,920! 811!! .9%! 46,050!(23.0%)! 20.10%!
CAYUGA! $48,453! 183!! .6%! 16,030!(20.0%)! 17.10%!
CHENANGO! $41,903! 83!! .4%! 12,370!(25.5%)! 20.40%!
CORTLAND! $41,903! 97!! .5%! 9,340!(18.9%)! 15.60%!
HERKIMER! $42,876! 81!! .3%! 15,335!(23.8%)! 18.50%!
ONEIDA! $46,409! 751!! .7%! 53,205!(22.7%)! 19.90%!
ONTARIO! $53,137! 688!! 1.4%! 23,095!(21.4%)! 18.20%!
OTSEGO! $42,837! 227!! .9%! 13,900!(22.3%)! 19.40%!
SENECA! $45,961! 57!! .4%! 7,575!(21.5%)! 16.60%!
TIOGA! $50,043! 130!! .6%! 11,370!(22.2%)! 17.40%!
TOMPKINS! $50,156! 627! 1.6%! 14,600!(14.4%)! 12.40%!


How!Many?!
US Representative Ann Marie Buerkle
25th Congressional District
How Many People In My District Make over
$250,000?
Really? Thats All!













County! Median!
Household!
Income!
Number!of!
Returns!with!AGI!
over!$250K!
Percent!of!Total!
Returns!with!AGI!
over!$250K!
(2009)+!
Number!
(Percentage)!of!
Population!
receiving!Social!
Security!(2010)!
Percentage!of!
Population!
receiving!
Medicare!(2010)!
ONONDAGA! $50,298! 2919! 1.4%! 91,750!(19.6%)! 16.9%!
CAYUGA! $48,453! 183! 0.6%! 16,030!(20.0%)! 17.10%!
WAYNE! $50,213! 166! 0.4%! 21,350!(22.8%)! 18.9%!
MONROE! $49,564! 4,473! 1.3%! 145,920!(19.6%) 16.7%!
FULTON! $39,939! 87! 0.4%! 13,260!(23.9%)! 18.1%!
W.!of!OSWEGO! $44,371! 172! 0.3%! 25,525!(20.9%)! 17.0%!
How!Many?!
US Representative Chris Gibson 20th Congressional District
How Many People In My District Make over $250,000?
Really? Thats All!






County! Median!
Household!
Income!
Number!of!
Returns!with!AGI!
over!$250K!
Percent!of!
Total!
Returns!with!
AGI!over!
$250K!
(2009)!
Number!
(Percentage)!of!
Population!
receiving!Social!
Security!(2010)!
Percentage!of!
Population!
receiving!
Medicare!(2010)!
Columbia! $50,620! 342! 1.2%! 14,685!(23.3%)! 20.1%!
Delaware! $40,252! 94! 0.5%! 11,420!(23.8%)! 19.9%!
Dutchess! $68,831! 2,188! 1.7%! 54,615!(18.4%)! 16.1%!
Essex! $42,053! 111! 0.7%! 9,105!(23.1%)! 20.3%!
Greene! $45,070! 136! 0.6%! 11,640!(23.6%)! 19.5%!
Rensselear! $51,720! 527! 0.7%! 30,170!(18.9%)! 16.3%!
Saratoga! $65,508! 1,560! 1.5%! 41,385!(18.8%)! 15.5%!
Otsego! $42,837! 227! 0.9%! 13,900!(22.3%)! 19.4%!
Warren! $50,269! 360! 1.1%! 16,585!(25.2%)! 21.6%!
Washington! $46,629! 74! 0.3%! 13,330!(21.1%)! 18.3%!
How!Many?!
US Representative Nan Hayworth
19th Congressional District
How Many People In My District Make over $250,000?
Really? Thats All!


County! Median!
Household!
Income!
Number!of!
Returns!with!AGI!
over!$250K!
Percent!of!
Total!
Returns!with!
AGI!over!
$250K!
(2009)!
Number!
(Percentage)!of!
Population!
receiving!Social!
Security!(2010)!
Percentage!of!
Population!
receiving!
Medicare!(2010)!
Dutchess! $68,831! 2,188! 1.7%! 54,615!(18.4%)! 16.1%!
Orange! $65,512! 2,244! 1.4%! 58,920!(15.8%)! 13.3%!
Putnam! $82,585! 1,319! 2.9%! 16,515!(16.6%)! 13.8%!
Rockland! $79,798! 4,386! 3.4%! 51,725!(16.6%)! 15%!
Westchester! $76,993! 32,234! 7.4%! 159,370!(16.8%)! 15.5%!