Between 2013 and 2014, the Romney-Ryan budget will slash $420 million from Minnesota, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Over the next eight years, $3.8 billion would be cut – all of which means cuts to vital services including early childhood education, law enforcement, infrastructure building and maintenance, as well as disaster response.
“With his choice for Vice President, Mitt Romney has shown how out of touch he really is. Paul Ryan wants to end Medicare while his policy proposals make the rich even richer,” said Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson.
“Minnesota families are still struggling to find work, pay for health care and afford retirement. We shouldn’t even consider the possibility of destroying Medicare, cutting Social Security or cutting funding for job training. Crippling education and allowing more offshoring to give tax cuts to the wealthiest is the last thing we need. The Romney-Ryan budget represents an extreme economic vision for an economy that works for a few, rather than an economy that lifts everyone up.”
The Romney-Ryan budget would make the top 1% richer at the expense of working families, Knutson said.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO is a labor federation made up of more than 1,000 affiliate unions, representing more than 300,000 working people throughout the state.
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Between 2013 and 2014, the Romney-Ryan budget will slash $420 million from Minnesota, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Over the next eight years, $3.8 billion would be cut – all of which means cuts to vital services including early childhood education, law enforcement, infrastructure building and maintenance, as well as disaster response.
“With his choice for Vice President, Mitt Romney has shown how out of touch he really is. Paul Ryan wants to end Medicare while his policy proposals make the rich even richer,” said Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson.
“Minnesota families are still struggling to find work, pay for health care and afford retirement. We shouldn’t even consider the possibility of destroying Medicare, cutting Social Security or cutting funding for job training. Crippling education and allowing more offshoring to give tax cuts to the wealthiest is the last thing we need. The Romney-Ryan budget represents an extreme economic vision for an economy that works for a few, rather than an economy that lifts everyone up.”
The Romney-Ryan budget would make the top 1% richer at the expense of working families, Knutson said.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO is a labor federation made up of more than 1,000 affiliate unions, representing more than 300,000 working people throughout the state.