Andrew Cuomo: Local minimum wages would disrupt economy

By Associated Press

Published February 12, 2014 5:00am ET

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Andrew Cuomo: Local minimum wages would disrupt economy — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, is opposed to letting individual municipalities set their own minimum wages and tax rates, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to do. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) | Mike Groll

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is opposed to letting individual municipalities set their own minimum wages and tax rates, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to do.

Cuomo says “we don’t want to have different cities with different tax rates” or different wage laws competing among each other for business because it could “cannibalize” the state economy.

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