Twenty community leaders were arrested after disrupting the House vote on the job-crushing debt ceiling and budget "deal" today.
The group chanted, "Boehner get off it, it's time to tax corporate profits!"
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Instead of solving the revenue crisis by Making Wall Street Pay their fair share, ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and closing corporate loopholes that let Bank of America pay no income taxes for the past three years, Congress and the President have given us a Raw Deal.
"John Boehner should stop worrying about keeping his job as Speaker of the House and start worrying about creating jobs for the millions of Americans who are unemployed," said Bobby Tolbert, a Board Member and leader for a community organization, VOCAL-NY. Today's action was organized by VOCAL-NY and Community Voices Heard with help from National People's Action.
The debt ceiling and budget "deal" will increase unemployment and hurt any prospect of an economic recovery. Instead of raising revenue and creating jobs, Congress and the President are cutting vital public services -- education, health care, housing -- that Americans rely on in their daily lives.
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