NYSUT: Do the rich and the special interests really need another $2.2 billion giveaway?

The 2014 executive budget proposes $2.2 billion in tax cuts and freezes that mostly benefit the wealthy, banks and corporations. Under any circumstances, that would be a waste and a bad idea. It's even worse right now, though, when huge gaps exist in the funding of schools and public universities in New York state. 

How about we take that $2.2 billion and do something good with it? 

Take action now at the NYSUT Member Action Center to tell lawmakers to oppose tax cuts that favor the wealthy and use that money to fund education! 

Over the last several years, programs and services at every level of education and health care across the state have been slashed to the bone. Our public colleges and universities have been cut by nearly $2 billion in recent years, and this latest executive eudget proposal would still leave approximately 69 percent of New York state schools at or below 2009-2010 education spending levels. 

Now the savings from those "bad times" budgets are to be used to provide tax breaks for the privileged elite? 

Outrageous. 

Take action now at the NYSUT Member Action Center to tell lawmakers to oppose tax cuts that favor the wealthy and use that money to fund education! 

Any budget that provides increased tax cuts to corporations and a select number of wealthy estate inheritors yet does nothing to restore the drastic cuts to the programs and services which students depend on is simply unacceptable. 

Don't you agree?                       


In solidarity, 
 
Andrew Pallotta
NYSUT Executive Vice President 

P.S.:   $2.2 billion for the privileged elite or for our students and schools? Tell 
           lawmakers which choice you prefer!