How to Fix State and Local Budgets (and Help the Middle Class)

[Sherman A1]

States and local governments have been cutting vital public services for years because of shrinking revenue and bad policy decisions. Crumbling roads, bridges and other infrastructure, and even shrinking educational opportunities, are the unfortunate results. A new report offers a real solution to this budget dilemma.

The report, Tax Fairness: An Answer to State Budget Problems, describes a financial crisis that could have been avoided – and can be fixed – by making our tax codes fair. The writers, economist Stephen Herzenberg, executive director of Keystone Research Center, and Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, contend the tax codes of most states and municipalities allow the wealthiest taxpayers, and rich corporations, to avoid paying their fair share.

http://www.afscme.org/blog/how-to-fix-state-and-local-budgets-and-help-the-middle-class

[SamKnause]

1. This article and many

others assume that politicians want to fix the budget and help the middle class.

The repeated actions of many politicians prove this not to be the case.

They are robbing U.S. citizens blind and protecting the elites.

That is their true intentions !