Richard L. Trumka
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer
April 2003

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President Bush's Tax Package Benefits the Wealthy, Not Working Families (1:03)
President Bush proposed a fiscal year 2004 budget Feb. 3 loaded with tax breaks for the wealthy. Bush's tax plan would give millionaires a tax cut of more than $30,000. But typical taxpayers would save less than $300. The president's proposal will cause severe cuts in programs that working families depend on—Medicare, Medicaid, education, low-income housing and transportation. It does nothing to create good jobs, completely ignores unemployed workers, fails to address the national health care crisis and offers no fiscal aid to states shouldering new costs for federal education mandates and homeland security.

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America Needs a Recovery Plan that Helps Workers and the Economy (1:13)
The American economy and America's working families urgently need a boost targeted to the low- and middle-income people who are bearing the brunt of the crisis—an economic recovery plan for all, not just for some. Before we give away more tax dollars to corporations and the well-to-do, we must invest in creating new jobs and improving the living standards, health care and retirement security of America's working families. It's time to reject huge new tax breaks for the rich that would leave little or nothing to spend on meeting working people's real needs and do nothing to fix the economy.

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Urge Congress to Vote Against the President's Plan to Help the Rich (:49)
We cannot afford the approach advocated by the president and Republican leaders in Congress who are pushing for more hefty tax giveaways instead of a program that benefits all Americans. Please call your members of Congress now using the AFL-CIO toll-free number 1-888-280-6279 and urge them to oppose the president's tax restructuring package. Working families simply can't afford it.