I've been meaning to write about this for a while, but the good people at the Working Families Party aren't on board with the idea of a tax cap being floated by Governor Paterson. Today comes the preliminary announcment of a "major" TV ad buy in conjunction with the Alliance for Quality Eduction AQE.

Groups to Launch Major TV Ad Campaign
Against Paterson Property Tax Cap

The Working Families Party (WFP) and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) are launching a major TV ad campaign against Governor David Paterson’s “tax cap” proposal.

Apparently, there's a conference call later today. Should be interesting, one would think.

So, what's your top fiscal priority? Maybe schools for those thousands of kids in Brooklyn that don't have a seat in one? How about affordable housing? Maybe some infrastructure spending on the increasingly ramshackle MTA network? Or, to leave the City behind, how about we hook up the disadvantaged regions of upstate New York to broadband internet access?

What we don't need is another $350,000,000 in tax-free financing dedicated to the destruction of Yankee Stadium and its replacement by a new and vaster complex littered with VIP skyboxes that ordinary people will never see the inside of. But that's exactly what your mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is pushing for in Washington.

The Working Families Party is saying "Haha, no" to the idea. You can add your voice to theirs by going here. Because, you know, it's not as if George Steinbrenner and his stable of millionaires are panhandling for cash in the subway or anything like that.