We Love You Eric Schneiderman
Cross-posted from CUNY DisOrientation Guide, March 3rd 2009:
On Tuesday, Eric Schneiderman introduced legislation in the New York State Senate which would raise more than $6 billion in new revenue by slightly increasing taxes on the wealthiest 5% of New Yorkers (those that make over $250,000).
"Over the last 30 years, New York has reduced income tax rates on the wealthiest New Yorkers by more than 50%, and has replaced this lost revenue by implementing more regressive taxes and fees that disproportionately impact low- and moderate-income New Yorkers. Currently, the richest 1% of New Yorkers pay 6.5% of their total income in state and local taxes, while the poorest 20% of New Yorkers pay 12.6% of their income."
The bill would increase and create new income tax brackets:
8.25% on incomes over $250,000.
8.97% on incomes over $500,000.
10.35 on incomes over $1 million.
Such a proposal would not only cut the state budget gap in half but take one small step towards reducing the extremely regressive income tax system that is rampant throughout the United States.
Additionally, such a tax program would mean that the proposed cuts to CUNY could be dramatically reduced.
Click here to watch a video of Eric discussing his legislation.
WHAT IS BROOKLYN COLLEGE DOING TO ADDRESS THE ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICALCRISES?
A conversation on
WORKER COOPS,
GREEN JOBS, and
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,
WITH PROFESSORS SARU JAYARAMAN (POLSCI) AND MICHAEL MENSER (PHILOSOPHY)
March 10th, 2009
12:15-2pm
Room 4145 BOYLAN HALL
Sponsored by Students for Global Justice and the Philosophy Society
Saru Jayaraman is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In 1992 she founded Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (W.Y.S.E.), a national women of color leadership organization. At the Workplace Project, she created The Alliance for Justice, to organize Latina/o custodial, factory, and restaurant workers for workplace justice. Most recently, with displaced workers the World Trade Center, she founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), which has organized restaurant workers to win campaigns against high-profile exploitative restaurants, launch a cooperative restaurant, COLORS, and initiate the country’s first national restaurant workers’ association. As a Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, Ms. Jayaraman published The New Urban Immigrant Workforce in 2005.
Dr. Michael Menser is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and is a member of the Executive Board of Environmental Studies at BC, the Center for the Study of Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Grad Center, and the US Solidarity Economy Network. His research is on participatory democracy and environmentalism and has been active in the World Social Forum movements. He received his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2002. More at: http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/philo/Menser.htm
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