Every progressive should know about the Congressional Progressive Caucus's "Budget for All." In fact, every American should know about this budget. But the corporate news media sure isn't going to tell people. So you should help get the word out. Read and Share the One-Page Handout. Email this post to friends, relatives, and especially to your right-wing brother-in-law.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has put together a "Budget for All" that "puts Americans back to work, charts a path to responsible deficit reduction, enhances our economic competitiveness, rebuilds the middle class and invests in our future." This budget "makes no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefits, and asks those who have benefited most from our economy to pay a sensible share."
Our Budget Puts Americans Back to Work
Our budget attacks America's persistently high unemployment levels with more than $2.9 trillion in additional job-creating investments. This plan utilizes every tool at the government's disposal to get our economy moving again, including:
...Direct hire programs that create a School Improvement Corps, a Park Improvement Corps, and a Student Jobs Corps, among others.
...Targeted tax incentives that spur clean energy, manufacturing, and cutting-edge technological investments in the private sector.
...Widespread domestic investments including an infrastructure bank, a $556 billion surface transportation bill, and approximately $2.1 trillion in widespread domestic investment.Our Budget Exhibits Fiscal Discipline
The Budget for All achieves $6.8 trillion in deficit reduction, hits the same debt to GDP ratio as the Republican budget, and has lower deficits in the last five years, but does so in a responsible way that does not devastate what Americans want preserved.We achieve these notable benchmarks by focusing on the true drivers of our deficit -- unsustainable tax policies, the wars overseas, and policies that helped cause the recent recession -- rather than putting the middle class's social safety net on the chopping block.
Our Budget Creates a Fairer America
Ends tax cuts for the top 2% of Americans on schedule at year's end.
Extends tax relief for middle class households and the vast majority of Americans.
Creates new tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires.
Eliminates the tax code's preferential treatment of capital gains and dividends.
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