Budget Justice is common sense, smart economics and the only way we have justice for all New Yorkers and survive, progress and prosper.
In July after spending the day witnessing the Queens DA recount for the Cabán campaign I participated in my first working group meeting for New York Budget Justice. I knew at that first meeting that delivering budget justice is key to making New York just, equal, and prosperous for all New Yorkers.
I am running for Assembly so I can work on the foundational issues of Democracy Reform and Budget Justice…because solving these issues will make our foundation strong enough to solve our current crises, prevent or withstand future crises and support an equal, prosperous future for all.
Budget Justice is common sense, smart economics and the only way we have justice for all New Yorkers and survive, progress and prosper.
Budget justice is our economy working for all of us, not just the wealthy few.
Budget Justice means:
💥Breaking the arbitrary and inhumane austerity cap on our New York state budget that has devastated New Yorkers and our communities across the state. An austerity cap that serves only to protect the ultra wealthy from taxation.
💰Enacting new sources of revenue that will fix New York’s upside-down, regressive tax system; restore the health and stability of our communities and fund the urgent action we need to solve the crises we face including homelessness, housing, education, climate to name only a few.
🎁Stopping huge giveaways to large corps and prioritizing needs of everyday New Yorkers. Economic development should be transparent, independently monitored and w/out conflicts of interest. Economic development should aim to reduce poverty, increase standard of living, and build a solid foundation for all.
Last week we went to Albany to advocate for an end solitary confinement and for budget justice. Solitary confinement is torture and the movement to end it speaks to touture being a moral issue which it is.
Delivering budget justice is also a moral issue because not doing it means we are deliberately withholding funding … deliberately not taking care of New Yorkers who are marginalized, poor, living in poverty…often black and brown people who have been systematically harmed for centuries.
