Community Organizers: Endorse The
Citizens Rally For a Fair Budget – May 22, 2010
Stop the Cuts! — Restore the Millionaire's Tax!
Governor Chris Christie wants to impose drastic cuts to vital public services while giving a billion dollar tax break to NJ's richest taxpayers by refusing to restore NJ's Millionaire's Tax.
Christie wants to:
- Cut $820 million in public school aid.
- Cut hundreds of millions of dollars in State services to the visually impaired, to people with disabilities, to seniors and to children.
- Cut 74% of state funding for public libraries Cut $175 million from NJ's public colleges and universities.
- Cut funding for women's health services and family planning.
- Cut the Earned Income Tax Credit for NJ's lowest income Working Families from 25% to 20%.
- Cut health care funding for NJ FamilyCare and deny parents health insurance Force legal immigrants off the FamilyCare program.
- Cut funding for programs that assist Senior Citizens purchase needed prescription medicine.
On May 22, 2010 at 12:00 noon, Citizens will Rally at the Statehouse in Trenton to Demand the Restoration of the Millionaires Tax and to Stop the Cuts to Public Services and Safety Net Programs, Public Health Facilities, Schools, Colleges, and Libraries.
For more information contact Adam Sherman at 732-246-4772 ext. 22, or adam@njcitizenaction.org. Please use either the online Endoresement Form directly below, or download the printable version. Return to the Citizens Rally main entry.
May 22, 2010 Citizens Budget Rally Endorsement Form
- Whereas the budget proposed by Governor Christie makes massive cuts to public services and public schools; and
- Whereas, those cuts will harm our children, people with disabilities, seniors, working families, the poor, our schools, our healthcare system, and our communities; and
- Whereas NJ's high income tax payers need to pay their fair share; and
- Whereas, many of these cuts could be restored by restoring the surtax on incomes of people who earn more than $400,000 a year, therefore
- Be it resolved that this organization hereby endorses the May 22, 2010 Citizens Rally to stop the cuts in funding and restore the Millionaires' Tax.
Who's endorsed so far?
ACLU-NJ, Advocates for New Jersey's Developmentally Disabled, Alliance for Disabled in Action, Bergen County Senior Citizen Coordinating Council Inc., Bergen Grassroots, Better Choices for NJ Campaign, Bloomfield Tenants Organization, BlueWaveNJ, Caldwell Tenants Association, Casa Puerto Rican Action Committee, Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton, Center for Food Action, NJ, Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War, Coalition of Families, Community Access Unlimited, Concerned Citizens Coalition of Long Branch, Crisis Ministry of Trenton and Princeton, Dover Democrats for Change, Fairlawn Tenants Organization, Fish Hospitality Network, Fort Lee Tenants Organization, Garden State Equality, Grassroots 4 Change, Grassroots Institute of NJ, GreenFaith, HANDS, Inc., Highland Park Board of Education, Hispanic Affairs and Resource Center of Monmouth County, Hispanic Directors Association of NJ, Hispanic Family Center of Southern NJ, Hispanic Multi-Purpose Service Center, HOPES, INC, Housing and Community Development Network of NJ, Hyacinth AIDS Foundation, I Beseech Thee Community Development Corporation, International Socialist Organization, Central Jersey/TCNJ Branch, JClarkMedia.com, Jewish Labor Committee , La Casa Don Pedro, La Causa Newsletter of NJ, Latino Action Network, Latino Institute, Inc., Latino Student Council--Rutgers University, Latinos Unidos Civic Association, League of Women Voters, NJ, Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry in NJ, Morris County NOW, Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs, NAACP Asbury Park-Neptune Branch, NAACP New Brunswick Area Branch, NAACP Oranges and Maplewood Branch, NASW, NJ Chapter, National Organization for Women, NJ, New Agape Christian Center, New Labor, Next Step, Nighthawk Books , NJ Advocacy Network to End Homelessness, NJ Alliance for the Homeless, NJ Anti Hunger Coalition, NJ Association of School Librarians, NJ Black Issues Convention, NJ Citizen Action, NJ Council of Churches, NJ Environmental Federation, NJ Immigration Policy Network , NJ Labor Against the War, NJ ONE Plan ONE Nation Coalition, NJ Policy Perspective, NJ Solidarity Singers, NJ State Conference NAACP, NJ Tenants Organization, NJ Work Environment Council, NJ Working Families Alliance, Our Children, Our Schools, Paterson Education Fund, People's Organization For Progress, People's Organization for Progress , Prodigal Sons & Daughters, Progressive Democrats of America, NJ Chapter, Puerto Rican Action Committee, Puerto Rican Association for Human Development , Ridgefield Tenants Organization, Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops, Sierra Club, NJChapter, Socialist Party of NJ, Spanish American Social Cultural Association , Spanish Community Center - Shore Area Health Education Center, Statewide Education Organizing Committee, Take Back Trenton Coalition, Tent State University, ThisAbled, LLc, United Front to Defend Public Education, Upper Township Board of Education, Urban Women's Center of Camden County, Wind of the Spirit, Women Who Never Give Up, WPU- Student Labor Action Project, YDS Chapter at William Paterson University.
