Fair Share group release new ad
The Working Families Party released a new web ad that highlights what they’re calling “New York State’s unfair income tax.”
The new ad is part of the Fair Share Tax Reform campaign, which is fighting to up the rate wealthy New Yorkers pay to help balance the budget and prevent proposed cuts to classrooms, hospitals, and essential community services across the state.
The Fair Share Tax Reform plan targets those earning $250,000 or more and would raise an estimated $6 billion in state revenue, or about half of what Gov. David Paterson expects the deficit to be over two years.
“Working Families has knocked on tens of thousands of doors to talk to New Yorkers about Fair Share Tax Reform, and this is the fact that always shocks people the most,” said WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor. “It’s hard to believe that our income tax structure is so unfair – and even harder to understand why the Governor won’t ask the wealthiest to pay their fair share in taxes to prevent some of the harshest budget cuts.”
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Thanks for the post. This video shows that, even without an insanely large budget deficit that leaves health care and education vulnerable to cuts, New York’s tax system is fundamentally unfair. It should go without saying that this needs be reformed, even if we were not in the economic crisis we’re in. The current conditions should only make the case for even greater urgency and expediency. Thank you for helping spread the word.
Cut all the boatloads of fat from all the jiggly decks of this “education” Titanic.
You know what fair share is: “It’s EVERYONE paying the same percentage of their income into the government.” But I’m game for a National/State/Local sales-tax system where you pay taxes on what you spend and you don’t have to deal with IRS. And personally, I’d like to see every friggin political candidate put half of his/her money raised for their campaign back into the government’s coffers (government coffers being the government you are running for-i.e. state government for state senate/state rep, County government for county offices, City government for city offices…)I don’t mind taxing the taxers. If you are going to tax the rich-why not the politicians? IMHO
P.S. If we have no IRS -we’ll be saving millions of dollars in wages :)
a fair rate of state taxes for all is the way to go, but i don’t think the monies should be only used to sustain the massive education and healthcare budgets. they need to do some re-evaluating too – smart spending is a must. and some of the money raised should go back to taxpayers to be spent to give the local economies the boost they need. small businesses and taxpayers need this help too. it’s not all about the schools and hospitals all the time. though they’d like us to think it should be :)