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Citizen Action of New York

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Identifiers

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https://citizenactionny.org/
org kind
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What this organization says it wants

We hold no stated position for Citizen Action of New York. That is our gap, not its silence — we read positions out of federal lobbying filings and state committee witness lists, and this organization has not been matched to either yet.

The positions, and the documents they come from

Every position below links to the record it was read from. We do not store one without a link — a claim you cannot check is the thing this list exists to prevent.

    What it says on the issues

    Statements that name no bill. Each was placed on one of our lines by reading the quote, and kept only where our quiz questions on that line, answered from the same quote, lean the same way. Each counts like one answer to a quiz question.

    • Pace / Legitimacy of Changeinstitutional continuity

      “Citizen Action adamantly opposes any weakening of the climate laws passed by the legislature.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Economic Coordinationstate / common ownership, redistribution

      “Citizen Action therefore supports legislation to ensure that companies that do business in our state with over $2.5 million in profits pay what they owe in taxes.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Economic Coordinationstate / common ownership, redistribution

      “We therefore support legislation to overhaul the current inheritance tax system and allow the state to tax inheritances over $250,000, raising $4 billion a year (S914 Brisport/A2049 Solages).”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Economic Coordinationstate / common ownership, redistribution

      “Citizen Action supports restructuring the state personal income tax (PIT) to create additional tax brackets to make the tax code more progressive and to raise additional revenue from the top 5% of earners in the state.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Environmentmore policy activity in Environment

      “the Stop Climate Polluters Handouts Act, which would eliminate hundreds of millions in annual tax breaks provided by the state to the fossil fuel industry (S3606 Krueger/A3675 Simon).”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Environmentmore policy activity in Environment

      “Citizen Action adamantly opposes any weakening of the climate laws passed by the legislature.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Energymore policy activity in Energy

      “Citizen Action adamantly opposes any weakening of the climate laws passed by the legislature.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Law & Crimeless policy activity in Law & Crime

      “We support proposals that work to decrease the size, scope, and harm of the criminal legal system, and instead advocate for community resources and community-based solutions.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Macroeconomics: Tax Codemore policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code

      “Citizen Action supports restructuring the state personal income tax (PIT) to create additional tax brackets to make the tax code more progressive and to raise additional revenue from the top 5% of earners in the state.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Macroeconomics: Tax Codemore policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code

      “Citizen Action therefore supports legislation to ensure that companies that do business in our state with over $2.5 million in profits pay what they owe in taxes.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Macroeconomics: Tax Codemore policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code

      “We therefore support legislation to overhaul the current inheritance tax system and allow the state to tax inheritances over $250,000, raising $4 billion a year (S914 Brisport/A2049 Solages).”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Health: Insurancemore policy activity in Health: Insurance

      “We support the elimination of the premium cliffs for the Child Health Plus (CHP) program by expanding subsidies to New Yorkers making between 400% and 600% of the federal poverty level (FPL).”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Subsidiarity ↔ Centralization (law-making)power at the lowest competent level

      “Citizen Action supports two important bills aimed at limiting the role of state and local government in our state in immigration enforcement and addressing the abuses by the Trump administration in dealing with immigrants in our state.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Corporate tax rateraise it to tax away all corporate profit (100%)

      “Citizen Action therefore supports legislation to ensure that companies that do business in our state with over $2.5 million in profits pay what they owe in taxes.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Taxes on high earnersraise top rate to 94%

      “Citizen Action supports restructuring the state personal income tax (PIT) to create additional tax brackets to make the tax code more progressive and to raise additional revenue from the top 5% of earners in the state.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • ACA subsidiesextend them

      “We support the elimination of the premium cliffs for the Child Health Plus (CHP) program by expanding subsidies to New Yorkers making between 400% and 600% of the federal poverty level (FPL).”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Wealth tax on billionairesyes

      “We therefore support legislation to overhaul the current inheritance tax system and allow the state to tax inheritances over $250,000, raising $4 billion a year (S914 Brisport/A2049 Solages).”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Legal status for the long-settledyes

      “Citizen Action supports two important bills aimed at limiting the role of state and local government in our state in immigration enforcement and addressing the abuses by the Trump administration in dealing with immigrants in our state.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    • Police fundingmove money to social services

      “We support proposals that work to decrease the size, scope, and harm of the criminal legal system, and instead advocate for community resources and community-based solutions.”

      Published by the organization2026-03-03Open the record

    8 more readings were held back because the quiz questions on that line did not agree with them, or could not be answered from the quote.

    What we don't have on this organization

    • No committee totals

      This committee’s own receipts and disbursements — its totals as filed — are not ingested. What we hold about its money is the contributions we have matched to named candidates.

    Politicians funded

    1 politician · $0 in contributions we have matched, from FEC Schedule A filings

    • Michael Decillis