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NY lawmaker blasts ‘Tonight Show’ tax credit

Late-night host Jimmy Fallon can go work on his tan!

New York state would be better off spending money on services for the developmentally disabled than on tax credits to lure “The Tonight Show” back to the Big Apple, an upstate lawmaker argued yesterday.

“Tonight,” which moved from New York to California in 1972, is reportedly planning to replace longtime host Jay Leno with Fallon.

“It’s outrageous in this fragile economy to spend millions of tax dollars on a late-night talk show when thousands of people with developmental disabilities may lose the services they need,” said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco — a former GOP leader — in blasting “taxpayer-funded handouts to support the lifestyles of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.”

A billing dispute with DC forced Gov. Cuomo to propose cutting $240 million for the developmentally disabled from New York’s $4 billion budget.

The new state budget will restore about $60 million of the proposed cut, according to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan).

A Cuomo aide accused Tedisco of “grandstanding,” insisting the tax credit “will cost the state no extra money to lure jobs from other states and also fix a federal funding issue that occurred while this guy was in office.”