On Saturday, activists statewide are organizing to call on U.S. House members to end tax cuts for the rich and urge Congress to support New Yorkers by a deal on the looming fiscal cliff, Gannett’s Haley Viccaro reports.
Groups from labor, community, student and faith organizations will target house GOP members to end Bush tax cuts for the rich, protect Social Security and invest in jobs.
The groups, including the Strong Economy For All Coalition, will meet on the Staten Island Ferry, Kingston Farmers Market, Market Street in Corning and at stops in Binghamton and Newburgh. They plan to target GOP House members Michael Grimm, Chris Gibson, Tom Reed, Richard Hanna and Nan Hayworth.
Groups are planning to organize at four different locations throughout the state on Saturday:
- Starting at 11:30 a.m. on the Staten Island Ferry during the People’s Yacht Trip.
- From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kingston Farmer’s Market located at 272 Wall St. in Kingston.
- At 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Market Street Shopping district in Corning.
- From 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at River Read Books on 5 Court Street in Binghamton.
- At 11 a.m. at N Road, Route 9D (at I-84); Beacon
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WOW they are going to protest WOW
Before there was the “Oracle of Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
http://www.VJMachiavelli.blogspot.com
Power to the People who “VOTE”
so here is an outline of how to accomplish putting the US on a path to solvency
1. the bush tax cuts expire on people making more than 350,000
and additional brakets have to be created so as your income goes up your
bracket increases
2. capital gains and interest can no longer be taxed at 15% but they don’t have
to be taxed .22-25% for those making under
250,000 in retirment 0
3.the ss and medicare payroll tax has to be paid on all income
4. medicare has to be means tested..the more income you have the less you are covered
for ordinary medical expenses up to a certain threshold…for catastropic diseases the
standard should be different.no one should go broke paying for hospital or surgical care
5. social security has to be means tested …for upper income folks who have
interest and dividends in excess of 400,000 they begin to lose benefits gradually
6. corporate tax rates lowered to allow us companies to be
competitive in a global marketplace
7. federal spending has cut both for defense and non defense a dollar in revenue increases 3-4 dollars in spending cuts
9. deductions limited to a percentage of adjusted gross income
going up as your income exceeds 350,000
10 the AMT has to be abolished
doing all of the above gradually over the next 10 years…and slowly raising the retirement
age by 2 years will solve the problem
What about the welfare/food stamp/SSI/school tax sinkhole? Some of this is local, but it all originates federally, then comes down through the States through mandates and obscene profligacy.
Boehner and McConnell have to go off to pasture and quit their inane nonsense for the good of the USA.
That is the solution.
They dont care if tax rates go up for middle class workers who are for the most part stretching one paycheck to the next and hoping nothing breaks or no one gets sick until the next paycheck. These same workers also understand that Boehner and McConnell are dinosaurs who cling to some old time idea; they need to go.