On Tuesday, May 17, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced legislation to extend the millionaires’ tax beyond the end of the year deadline. Speaker Silver cited this extension as a “moral imperative.”
It’s unreasonable, unethical, and unfair to to give millionaires and billionaires tax breaks while kids are forced to sacrifice teachers, textbooks, and programs.
New York State’s kids are facing a dire situation. Disastrous budget cuts have been passed as the “solution” to the economic crisis caused by Wall Street. The $1.3 billion in cuts have already caused the stripping thousands of teachers of their jobs and shutting down childcare and after school programs. While our school are left to fall apart, corporate CEOs, Wall Street Bankers, and their billionaire buddies are pushing for huge tax breaks.
Click here to send a fax to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senator Dean Skelos, urging them to extend the millionaires’ tax. By cutting support for our kids’ education, teachers, and extracurricular programs, we are cutting support for our future. We need to protect the well-being of our children first, before the interests millionaires and billionaires!