📘 JSA2026 FY2026 Commonwealth Budget – Volume VII: Economic Revitalization Plan

Prepared by the Office of Jason S. Arnold – 2026 Gubernatorial Candidate, State of New York
This volume outlines the JSA2026 economic strategy to rebuild New York’s private sector through Special Economic Zones (SEZs), tourism development, rural recovery compacts, and innovation-driven job creation — while permanently detaching the state economy from subsidy dependency and regulatory suffocation.

📍 Special Economic Zones (SEZs)

• Establish 12 SEZs across regions with high unemployment and underused infrastructure
• Offer reduced corporate and sales tax rates for businesses under 100 employees headquartered in-SEZ
• Deploy fast-track permitting and zoning overrides for pre-approved SEZ developments
• Direct SEZ leasing revenue to fund education, broadband, and addiction recovery in surrounding areas

🏞️ Rural Recovery Compacts (RRCs)

• Deploy RRC grants to counties with shrinking populations and stagnant commercial growth
• Incentivize small-town manufacturing clusters and remote-work cooperative hubs
• Offer 1-year tax waiver + 3-year stabilization aid to new RRC businesses committing to a 10-year lease and local hiring benchmarks
• Use Operation Ghost Town properties to host maker spaces, vocational co-ops, and market-linked agricultural revival zones

🧳 Tourism & Entertainment Innovation Zones (TEIZs)

• Designate TEIZs in high-potential destinations: Coney Island, Niagara Falls corridor, Hudson Valley corridor, Finger Lakes, Adirondacks
• Enable 24/7 licensing flexibility for seasonal and event-driven local commerce
• Offer grants for family-run hospitality, tours, and heritage brands with generational local roots
• Create NY Passport App to reward in-state travel and purchases at local businesses with tax incentives and perks

💡 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Infrastructure

• Create the NY Startup License: $1 one-click state registration for new businesses under $500k gross revenue for first 3 years
• Launch Digital Cottage Law Framework: Enable micro-commerce and home-based food/business models with simplified compliance
• Fund 8 regional Innovation Incubators: Linked to SUNY, SEZs, and BOCES systems
• Use reclaimed ESDC grants: Seed match-funded investment in co-ops, creators, and makers

📈 Fiscal & Regional Impact Projections

• 10,000+ new businesses projected in SEZ/TEIZ/RRC system within 36 months
• $1.5B in capital inflow projected from redirected subsidies and land leases
• Estimated 4.2% unemployment drop in targeted SEZ/RRC regions within 2 years

🔚 Conclusion from Jason S. Arnold

We will not revive New York by giving billion-dollar tax breaks to global corporations. We will revive it by betting on the builders, creators, doers, and locals who never left. This is how we return to work — and how we rebuild the private economy through commonwealth innovation and local loyalty.

Volume VIII will detail the Technology, Transparency & Civic Access Plan — including the NY Digital Civic Hub and platform modernization roadmap.

🗽 Jason S. Arnold, Candidate for Governor
📍 https://jsa2026.com
☎️ (516) 586-0660
✉️ jaysarnold@icloud.com