Donald Trump Doesn't Deserve a Tax Break!
No War on Syria!
Time to stand up for our values and priorities!
President Trump’s tax bill is ensuring billions of dollars in profits to large corporations– and peanuts to working people. Meanwhile, the President and Congress have agreed on unparalleled increases in Pentagon spending that will lead to more wars, more suffering, and take even more money from programs that benefit all of us. Cuts in essential programs from climate protection to Medicaid, housing, Social Security, and Medicare are on the drawing board. We must turn around Washington’s budget insanity. Join us on April 14th!
- The Trump tax cuts for the 1% (approved by Congress) will drain the treasury of over $1.5 trillion of needed revenue over the next 10 years. In the near future, these deficits will drive deep cuts to health care, education, food stamps, affordable housing and just about every other domestic program for years to come.
- Congress has voted dramatic increases in war spending and first-strike nuclear weapons. These will make the world much more dangerous and drive further cuts to our economic, social and environmental security. No first strike weapons for Trump and No War on Syria!
- President Trump has urged draconian cuts to housing, Medicaid, food stamps, and almost every other domestic program.
- And to top it all off, Trump has still refused to release his tax returns
Walpole area: Tax Day rally, Saturday, April 14, 10:00 am on Walpole Common.
Each year the Congressional Progressive Caucus proposes the alternative People’s Budget. It fully funds vital social programs, taxes the 1%, and reduces Pentagon spending.
Music by BABAM! and by Pat Scanlon
Political Comedy by Jimmy Tingle
Speakers will include:
Mike Connolly, State Representative (MC)
Bob Massie, Climate Activist
Marc McGovern, Mayor of Cambridge
Karlene Griffiths Sekou, Black Lives Matter Boston
Jennifer Taub, law professor; author, Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
Gabriel Camacho, Project VOICE and Communities Against Islamophobia
Rev. Vernon Walker, Boston Rescue Mission
Josh Hoxie, Institute of Policy Studies, tax policy expert
Mary Reagan, New England War Tax Resistance
Jonathan King, MIT biomedical researcher, Massachusetts Peace Action
Paul Atwood, Veterans for Peace
Rhoda Gibson, Mass ADAPT, disability rights activist
Joseph Gerson, coordinator, Global Day of Action Against Military Spending (GDAMS)
Molly Hannon, Massachusetts Alliance of HUD Tenants
Jessica Turner, Clarendon Residents United
Join us on Tax day to oppose Trump’s budget and tax priorities!
Walpole area: Join Tax Day rally, Saturday, April 14, 10:00 am on Walpole Common.
Sponsored by the Massachusetts People's Budget Campaign, Not One Penny, Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, Veterans for Peace, Boston Teacher's Union, UNITE-HERE New England Joint Board, Mass. Peace Action, Dorchester People for Peace, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security, Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee, Save Our Section 8 Committee, January Coalition, Cambridge Area Stronger Together, New England War Tax Resistance, Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment, American Friends Service Committee, Our Revolution Cambridge, Our Revolution Boston (list in formation)
Our unique speakers bring a diversity of perspectives to the dialogue on war and peace. Our speakers list includes community organizers, retired military commanders, peace scientists, attorneys, war tax resisters, artists, authors, psychologists, and nonviolent activists.
