Sign on Letter
Take a stand against devastating cuts to vital health and human services and corporate tax breaks that cost California jobs, and call on the Governor to support a Family Recovery Budget for California that:
- Creates and maintains jobs;
- Provides a strong safety net for where there are not jobs
- Brings in state and Federal funds for the relief of California’s struggling families
You can make sure the Governor knows that his May Revise proposal is unacceptable, unsustainable and simply calamitous for California by signing your organization on to the HHS Network letter to the Governor TODAY!
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Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
We are writing to strongly object to your devastating May Revise budget proposal. Your budget proposal would eliminate jobs and vital state investment in families, yet fails to consider even the most moderate of revenue strategies as alternatives to closing our $20 billion shortfall.
Our deepening State fiscal crisis demands a balanced solution that will put our economy and families back on track after the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Any state budget proposal in this economy must:
- Protect, not eliminate, the core investments in human capital that our State has built — and that have built our State — over the decades. The past four years already have brought deep cuts for children, working parents, seniors, people with disabilities, and all families, bringing California to record low investment levels compared both to other states and to its own history. Our economy, our families, and our local communities cannot continue on this track.
- Stop the secret deals to corporations at the expense of economic and family recovery. We cannot afford the corporate tax breaks created in secret in February 2009 and September 2008 and scheduled to begin this year. These corporate breaks are estimated to cost the state $2 billion and have an uncertain impact — yet they deplete the public funds needed for proven investments in jobs and the workforce. These secret deals, at a minimum, must be postponed during this crisis, and their cost-effectiveness evaluated.
- Include targeted revenue strategies to create jobs and investment, such as: closing the corporate property tax loopholes that allow 100% ownership transfers without a new reassessment, and taxing oil companies for oil extracted from California, as every other government does. Solving this budget crisis without considering revenues as well as cuts is as unworkable as it is unwise.
Our economy, our state, and our families will not recover without a balanced budget solution that maintains baseline investments in people and raises the targeted revenue needed to move California forward. We urge you to propose new solutions to our crisis, engage in open negotiations with all legislators, and deliver a 2010-11 budget that passes this test.
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