Virtual Rally : Support Our State

Posted April 16th, 2009 by Harmony Blakeway

Massachusetts Natural Balance: Revenue & SpendingWe are excited to announce the official launch of the Virtual Rally to Support Our State!!

Massachusetts has worked for decades to build a system of public structures that keep our communities safe and healthy, educate our children, and draw businesses to our state.

Now, in an effort to avoid raising state taxes, the House Ways and Means Committee has proposed to dramatically cut those public structures in a time when we all rely on them more than ever.

All this week, our legislators will be considering amendments to our budget. Debate starts on April 27th. Now is the time to talk to your legislators!!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE VIRTUAL RALLY:

  1. Contact your legislators - in the House and in the Senate. Tell them that you support an adequate, balanced tax package that both addresses our structural deficit and stabilizes the public programs that we depend on!

    Customize your message by telling your legislators why restoring these public programs is important to your local community!

  2. Pass this on to your personal and professional networks via Facebook, to mailing list, or in person - and recruit five of your friends and neighbors to do the same.
  3. Let us know how it went! Once you've called each of your legislators, Twitter about it with the tag: #MassRevenues

QUESTIONS?

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Three ways to restore your program in the HW&M Budget.

On April 16th, 2009 Anonymous said:
You have have thee choices under the rules. Ask your Rep to file an amendment to earmark the appropriate line item, understanding that your increase will be taken from other programs funded under that line item. (Of course they all may have asked for earmarks that defund you.) Ask your Rep to restore your line item and reduce the same amount from another line item you think is undeserving and pissing off their constituency. Ask your Rep to restore your line item appropriating the amount from the anticipated revenues from the balanced adequate tax pacage she or he just voted for. Don't you think it's time we all stuck our heads out of our individual issue silos, looked around at all the public structures and programs that make our communites livable and worked together to provide the necessary (small p) political support for our Reps to stand up and vote for a balanced adequate tax package?