A Real Budget That Makes Real Investments
April 02, 2009
By Marc Laitin, AFL-CIO Online Mobilization Coordinator
Congress is about to vote on a budget resolution for fiscal year 2010. This budget delivers on the principles laid out by President Obama and includes:
A down payment on national health care reform.
Investments in increasing green jobs and addressing climate change.
More funding for education.
Other crucial programs for working families.
We support President Obama's plan, and we need your help to make sure Congress passes it without any anti-working family amendments, including tax cuts for the wealthy.
This budget makes critical investments in our future, while improving the lives of America's workers, our communities and ultimately our nation. It is a comprehensive budget that grapples with many of the greatest challenges we face.
Unlike the budgets of the previous administration, President Obama's budget doesn't hide behind fancy accounting tricks to sugarcoat the costs of programs. More importantly, instead of giving costly handouts in the form of tax cuts for the super-rich, it helps those who actually need it by doing things like extending the middle class tax cuts that expire in 2010 and continuing the expansion of the child tax credit to more working families.
We have much work to do to get our nation back on track, and it starts with a responsible budget that invests in the future, strengthens the middle class and restores fiscal discipline. And let's be clear—the money spent in this budget is not a luxury, but rather a necessary investment in our future.
Click here to write your senators and representative right now and tell them to support the budget resolution.
Congress is about to vote on a budget resolution for fiscal year 2010. This budget delivers on the principles laid out by President Obama and includes:
A down payment on national health care reform.
Investments in increasing green jobs and addressing climate change.
More funding for education.
Other crucial programs for working families.
We support President Obama's plan, and we need your help to make sure Congress passes it without any anti-working family amendments, including tax cuts for the wealthy.
This budget makes critical investments in our future, while improving the lives of America's workers, our communities and ultimately our nation. It is a comprehensive budget that grapples with many of the greatest challenges we face.
Unlike the budgets of the previous administration, President Obama's budget doesn't hide behind fancy accounting tricks to sugarcoat the costs of programs. More importantly, instead of giving costly handouts in the form of tax cuts for the super-rich, it helps those who actually need it by doing things like extending the middle class tax cuts that expire in 2010 and continuing the expansion of the child tax credit to more working families.
We have much work to do to get our nation back on track, and it starts with a responsible budget that invests in the future, strengthens the middle class and restores fiscal discipline. And let's be clear—the money spent in this budget is not a luxury, but rather a necessary investment in our future.
Click here to write your senators and representative right now and tell them to support the budget resolution.