Aug. 22, 2012 -- Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino released the following statement Wednesday in response to the Supreme Court, Nassau County granting summary judgment declaring the MTA payroll tax unconstitutional:
"This is good news for Westchester County and its municipalities. The MTA payroll tax is essentially an unfunded mandate from Albany. In this case, we were allowed to challenge it. We did. And now we've won an important victory with the court's decision that this unfair burden on taxpayers was unconstitutional."