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The Green-Rainbow Party is the alternative to the corporately dominated Democrat-Republican establishment. We promote economic, social and environmental policies to serve the public, not the corporations and the wealthiest few.

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GRP Better Budget Initiative

THE MONEY IS THERE -- BUT NOT FOR YOU!

On Beacon Hill, both Democrats and Republicans have responded to the "budget crisis” by slashing funding for education, health care, the environment, public works, and human services. At the same time, they’ve been protecting all the tax giveaways to corporations and other well-connected special interests. We think this is the wrong way to go.

This corporations-first budgeting strategy harms the people have been have been most devastated by the economic disasters of the last five years. For the last thirty years during virtually all the productivity gains in the country have gone to the wealthiest one percent, creating state and national income inequality unseen since the Gilded Age and the Crash of 1928. These policies have produced a foreclosure crisis, a jobs crisis, an education funding crisis, and a cost-of-living crisis. The response of our legislators has been to protect the giveaways for the wealthy and to impose “austerity” upon everyone else. A sound economy must be built from the bottom up, not from the top down. We should be using our wealth to provide quality education for everyone, boost the economic vitality of our communities, and make sure that the workers who actually create wealth can live healthy, productive lives in which work pays off and families get ahead.

The ongoing budget crisis is a result of the corporations-first policies embraced by both the Democrats and Republicans. It was not created by over-funding essential services. It is a result of misusing our resources - giving away our money to corporations that overpay their CEOs and underpay their workers, throwing our health care insurance into the hands of predatory insurance companies, and giving obscenely generous tax breaks to the superrich -- the millionaires and billionaires -- which lets them pay an effective tax rates that is about half that paid by low-income and middle-class people. It was accelerated by deregulating the financial industries so they could exploit their credit customers, drain money out of the pockets of people who do real work, and boost their undeserved bonuses. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being pocketed by a favored few. Yet the very foundations of a healthy and prosperous society are eroding. The money is there -- but NOT FOR YOU!

The Better Budget Initiative of the Green-Rainbow Party working for a just and compassionate approach to budget and taxes. We want to change our budget priorities, and hold elected officials accountable for waste, unfair taxation, and arrogant neglect of their constituents. We intend to penetrate the fog of misinformation, excuses, and spin that politicians use to avoid accountability. We want to achieve a budget that works for the people, not just for the wealthy few.