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Tell Your Legislator to Support The "People's Plan" For Vermont
Vermont Workers' Center proposes an alternative to the Douglas Budget Cuts
The Vermont Workers' Center has been organizing opposition the cuts to public services and state layoffs proposed by Governor Douglas since the beginning of February. As an alternative, we are proposing a "People's Plan" to raise revenue instead of cutting programs and pass single-payer universal healthcare.
The People’s Plan has three main thrusts:
* maintaining and expanding programs in areas of fundamental need, including human services, housing, education and employment;
* instituting equitable revenue policies that increase the contribution of the wealthy and tax unearned income at no less than the same rate as other income;
* establishing a system of universal healthcare that is equitable, is accountable to the people and eliminates all barriers to the enjoyment of the human right to health.
Bills that currently constitute the People’s Plan include H.100/S.88 (healthcare), H.177 (revenue) and H.257 (public services).
Learn more go to www.workerscenter.org/peoplesplan
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Subject: Support the "People's Plan" for Vermont
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I am writing to you because the Douglas administration's budget proposal threatens the fundamental human rights of Vermonters by disregarding such basic needs as healthcare, housing, education, social security and dignified work. The administration's attempt to cut social services, reduce government oversight and lay off workers, while it stubbornly continues to pursue regressive fiscal policy, represents a failure to recognize, accept and uphold the government's human-rights obligations to its people.
Rather than seek economic justice, the Douglas administration clings to an economic theory that has been indisputably discredited by recent events. Rather than seek social justice, the Douglas administration offers only neglect of those most in need.
I am writing you to ask you to oppose the Douglas plan and support an alternative "People's Plan", which embraces and embodies the role of government as a guarantor of the human rights of its people. Among these rights are the right to health, the right to housing, the right to education, the right to dignified work and the right to security in times of need. The People's Plan assures that Vermont can become a place where these rights are afforded to everyone, without exception, without discrimination and with the burdens and benefits shared equitably. It is a plan for economic recovery based on a vision of justice.
The People's Plan has three main thrusts:
* maintaining and expanding programs in areas of fundamental need, including human services, housing, education and employment;
* instituting equitable revenue policies that increase the contribution of the wealthy and tax unearned income at no less than the same rate as other income;
* establishing a system of universal healthcare that is equitable, is accountable to the people and eliminates all barriers to the enjoyment of the human right to health.
Bills that currently constitute the People's Plan include H.100/S.88 (healthcare), H.177 (revenue) and H.257 (public services).
These bills and others yet to be drafted embody the People's Plan. Other initiatives include economic-development policy that invests in energy efficiency, affordable housing, education and rural telecommunications infrastructure, instead of in dubious tax incentives.
Learn more at www.workerscenter.org/peoplesplan
Sincerely,
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