Working Families

Bloomberg’s attack ads don’t pass the smell test.

We did it! Our grassroots campaign to raise taxes on the wealthy to prevent budget cuts to schools, hospitals, and lots more ended in success.

Crain’s New York Business takes a look at the impact of the WFP’s full throttle campaign to balance the state budget in a “balanced” way – through prudent spending cuts and rolling back tax cuts for the wealthy:

Tax hike is textbook politics
Working Families Party rallies popular support, legislative action in Albany
By Erik Engquist
Published: March 15, 2009 [...]

The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel offer’s her take on the Working Families Party’s Fair Share Tax Reform campaign in a new Editor’s Cut column:
What Will New York Do?
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 02/23/2009 @ 2:32pm
Now that thirty years of deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy have failed so spectacularly, creating an economic [...]

For Immediate Release: February 10, 2009
Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party today released the following statement on the Fair Share Tax Reform Act introduced today in the Senate. It can be attributed to Dan Cantor, WFP Executive Director:
“While Governor Paterson continues to ask everyone except the wealthy to contribute to closing the state’s budget gap, [...]

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There are dozens of regressive taxes — on sugar, on car registrations, on health insurance, on clothes, on going to the movies, and even a tax on downloading music.  In total, billions of dollars in tax hikes on working families.
At the same [...]