If enacted, the budget would represent a 5.3percentt increase in state spending.
"The largest tax increase in state history just to maintain the status quo?" he asked.
He has also called for an increase in state support for recovery clinics.
And the government has already conceded the need for some increase in state spending on pensioners.
"You can't really have credible reform without a significant increase in state subsidies," Dr. Mietzner said.
But it has also meant a corrosive trend: a gradual increase in state involvement.
The increase in state operating funds would be less than 2 percent.
The N.S.A. programs represent a troubling increase in state power, even if — so far, and so far as we know — they have not occasioned a troubling increase in state wrongdoing.
Of the 124 school districts on the Island, only 13 received a smaller increase in state funding than this year.
Yonkers received an $18 million increase in state school aid this year, nearly twice the statewide average of 8.7percentt.
Overall, the governor proposed a $382 million increase in state aid to schools, just enough to keep up with inflation.
