Gov. Andrew Cuomo has offered little sympathy for county, town and village governments who find themselves being strangled by a property tax cap and millions of dollars of unfunded mandates. At an Albany news conference last week, Cuomo said “local municipalities must do what we in state government did: Solve their own fiscal problems.”

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