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Senate Budget: Bad for Kids, Families, and Our Future

Top 10 Reasons the Senate Budget is bad for Kids, Middle Class Families and Our Future

  1. 15 NEW tax loopholes; zero eliminated – The Senate plans to add 15 new tax breaks while not eliminating even one existing corporate giveaway.
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  3. Raids school trust funds; spend the same dollars twice – Swipes $166 million of the Common School Construction Fund for the operating budget, not only is this a fund the constitution dictates must go toward school construction, but they already spent the money earlier this year.
  4. Kills jobs and community investments – Permanently removes money from the Public Works Assistance Account that creates jobs by building community projects that local governments depend on.

     

  5. Jeopardizes our seniorsCuts care for the elderly that lets them stay in their homes, sending them to nursing homes and costing everyone more.
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  7. Cruelly cuts the lifeline for aged, blind, disabled and homeless people – 20,000 of our most vulnerable Washingtonians will lose their lifeline ending up hungry and on our streets and homeless families would lose access to transitional housing services.
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  9. Shortchanges our earliest learners – Cuts funding for quality childcare, eliminates early learning opportunities, and adds no funding for decreasing K-3 class size.
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  11. Permanently Cuts Teacher Pay – Would permanently eliminate voter approved teacher salary cost of living adjustments making it harder to keep quality teachers in our schools.
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  13. Takes the “green” out of Evergreen – Makes huge cuts in the Department of Ecology, endangering our air and water.
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  15. Chooses corporate tax loopholes over middle-class families – Slashes programs families depend on like worker retraining and cuts childcare for thousands of working families and single moms.
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  17. No details & imaginary solutions – Makes up $300 million in unspecified “administrative and other efficiencies” without any details and counts $40 million in made-up revisions and “future under-spending” despite the fact that it probably won’t happen.