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A Better Choice for New York is a commitment to invest in the future of New York by making smart revenue and budget balancing choices. Ensuring that New York is dedicated to protecting all of its citizens, not only big business, requires passing a budget that preserves the promise of New York and shares the burden between all of its participants. We must protect the most vulnerable-the children, elderly and poor-by avoiding detrimental spending cuts; under-funding education, health and human services discriminates against specific groups in our state. We cannot continue to permit the middle class to shoulder the burden through increased regressive property taxes; make corporations pay their fair share and stop the sweetheart deals with private contractors that take away jobs from our state workers! The BCBC has been successful in making the legislature aware of additional revenue options other than massive spending cuts; our elected officials responded with a reasonable tax increase on those with the highest incomes in 2003. This year our campaign must work even harder to tell the Governor and Legislature that big business must pay their fair share and that special interests must come second to the interests of New York State citizens. We must also tell them that tax equity must be achieved through a restructuring of the personal income tax. There is a Better Choice for ONE New York.
The Better Choice Budget Campaign is sponsored by New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness.
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Ron Deutsch, Executive Director
office: (518) 452-2130
fax: (518) 869-8649
cell: (518) 469-6769 |
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Fiscal
Policy Institute
Hunger Action
Network of NY State
