Reminder of a Tax Day Vigil on Saturday, April 12, in Walpole, from 10 to 11:30 AM

 Please join us on Saturday,  April 12, from 10 to 11:30 AM, the Walpole Common at the corner of Main and West Streets.  Tax Day, April 15, is right around the corner.  On Saturday, we will stand in support of the Budget for All,  bringing attention to how our federal  tax dollars are used .   The U.S. military budget commands over 50% of all discretionary spending, dwarfing the amount spent for critical programs like transportation, veterans affairs, education, and housing.  Our country devotes more money to the military than the next 13 biggest military spenders in the world, combined!  The current Ryan budget proposal  targets  social services for even more devastating cuts.  

We need the Budget for All that supports social services and the needs of people. 

Walpole voters in precincts 1, 2, 6, and 7 sent a clear message to Washington on November 6, 2012 by voting 2  to 1 on the Budget for All ballot question.

The Budget for All calls on Congress to enact a budget for prosperity, not austerity. Its full text reads:

Shall the state Representative (or Senator) from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon the Congress and the President to:

1.    Prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and\unemployment assistance;

2.    Create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services;

3.    Provide new revenues for these purposes and to reduce the long-term federal deficit by closing corporate tax loopholes, ending offshore tax havens, and raising taxes on incomes over $250,000; and

4.       Redirect military spending to these domestic needs by reducing the military budget, ending the war in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home safely now.

See the below leaflet with a Fact Sheet on the Budget for All and an invitation to a Boston Tax Day Rally and Forum on ‘We pay our taxes. Are we getting what we need?’, Saturday, April 12, 2014,  2 PM, Emmanuel Church  15 Newbury St.   Boston.