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<h1 style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;">As Debt Ceiling "Crisis" Renews and Sequester Axe Falls, Say No to Cuts!</h1>
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<h1 style="margin-bottom:0.5em;font-size:1.3em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;"><img src="http://www.masspeaceaction.org/home/images/Franklin.jpg" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" alt="">We paid <em>our </em>taxes...<br>
Why are vital services being cut, and<br>
Why is the president proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare?</span></h1>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;"><img src="http://www.masspeaceaction.org/home/images/CapitolDome.jpg" align="left" hspace="10" alt="" class="nb" style="border: 3px solid rgb(192, 192, 192); outline: rgb(0, 0, 0) solid 2px; position: relative; max-width: 94%; padding: 2px; margin: 5px 10px !important;">Budget cutters in Washington have already slashed Meals on Wheels, Head Start, Housing, Education, Fuel Assistance, Unemployment, Health Programs, AIDS Housing, and family violence prevention. Jobs are ending. Now the President wants to cut even more vital programs.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;"><u><b>But there is an alternative.</b></u></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0.5em;font-size:1.2em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;">1. End Corporate Tax Breaks!</span></h2>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;">Very high income people and giant corporations get hundreds of billions of dollars a year in tax breaks through loopholes and offshore tax shelters. The CEOs of Bank of America, Citibank, and Verizon are key members of Fix the Debt, a corporate group pushing for big cuts in critical public programs and even lower corporate taxes.</p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0.5em;font-size:1.2em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;">2. Redirect Pentagon Spending to Jobs and Vital programs for People!</span></h2>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;">The US war budget is greater than the military spending of the next 10 largest military powers combined. Much of it funds destructive wars like Iraq, wasteful weapons systems like the F-35, and keeping us in Afghanistan for years to come.</p>
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<h1 style="margin-bottom:0.5em;font-size:1.3em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="line-height: 1.1;">Join us on Thursday, May 16, to say:<br>
Stop the Cuts!</span></h1>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.1; font-family: Impact;">When: 12 noon<br>
Tip O’Neill Federal Building,</span></b> 10 Causeway Street, Boston – North Station (Green Line) Regional Headquarters for the Social Security Administration and Housing & Urban Development.<br>
We’ll also visit tax dodgers <strong>Bank of America, Citibank,</strong> and <strong>Verizon </strong>at 6 Bowdoin Square, Boston.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.1; font-family: Impact;">Sponsoring organizations:</span></b> Budget for All Coalition; Mass. AFL-CIO; Mass. Jobs with Justice; AFGE/Local 3258 AFL-CIO; SEIU Locals 615 & 888; Mass. Alliance of HUD Tenants; American Friends Service Committee; Mass. Peace Action; Disability Policy Consortium; Sierra Club – Boston; Boston Workers Alliance; ACTUP/Boston; Veterans for Peace; Homes for Families; Dorchester People for Peace; United for Justice with Peace; Boston Coalition to Fund Our Communities-Cut Military Spending 25%; Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom; Human Rights City Boston & Beyond; Survivors Inc.; SEIU Local 509 Lavender Caucus; Brookline PAX; Worcester Unemployed Action Group (list in formation)</p>
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<td>Last November Massachusetts voted 3 to 1 to: <b>Create jobs, Save vital services, Tax rich individuals and corporations, End the war</b> and <b>Cut pork from the Pentagon</b>.</td>
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<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:13px;"><img class="no_borders" src="http://www.masspeaceaction.org/home/images/B4Alogo.jpg" alt="Budget for All!" width="250" style="border: 3px solid rgb(192, 192, 192); outline: rgb(0, 0, 0) solid 2px; position: relative; max-width: 94%; padding: 2px; margin: 5px 10px !important;"><br>
11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138<br><a href="http://www.budget4allmass.org/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">www.budget4allmass.org</a> – 617-354-2169</p>
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