[amc] FW: [ProTex_PILF] CALL TO ACTION!
- From: "Kathy Reid" <Kathy@xxxxxxx>
- To: "Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:40:37 -0600
> Subject: [ProTex_PILF] CALL TO ACTION!
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> * Are you appalled by the recent budget cut proposals to Health and
> Human Services?
> * Now is the time to raise your voice in opposition to the cuts!
> * Demand health care justice in Texas!
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> Come rally at the Capitol on TUESDAY, March 11th from 12:15-1:00PM
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> RALLY TALKING POINTS
> (See reverse side for fact sheet)
> * The Real Texas Deficit: Failure to meet health care needs
> * Cuts are not the Cure
> * Texas Needs a Prescription for New Revenue
> RALLY SPEAKERS
> * DeAnn Friedholm-Children’s Defense Fund
> * Louis Malfaro-Texas AFL-CIO
> * Nick Mannix- uninsured Texan
> * Senator Elliot Shapleigh (D-El Paso)
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> Leave No Texan Behind
> Health Care is a Basic Human Right Rally
> Tuesday, March 11, 2003
> 12:15-1:00-Capitol South Steps
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> FACT SHEET
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> The Real Texas Deficit: Failure to meet health care needs
> * Current Texas programs fail to help uninsured Texans with low
> incomes that cannot possibly afford high insurance rates. Almost 60% of
> uninsured Texans’ incomes are less than 200% of poverty and more than
> one-fourth have incomes below the poverty line.
> * Texas ranks poorly among the other states:
> * 1st in percentage of uninsured people
> * 35th in spending for Medicaid child coverage
> * 39th in state and local government health care spending per capita
> * 36th in state health ranking (including such things as health
> status, health habits, health outcomes)
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> Cuts are Not the Cure
> * State agencies have laid out the devastating cuts that would be
> required in budgets with no new revenues. These cuts will have the worst
> impact on Texans who need help the most: people with disabilities living
> in our communities, frail elders, and our poorest children.
> * Cutting state programs that draw down matching federal funds -
> Medicaid and CHIP - will exacerbate our funding shortfall. For every
> Texas dollar spent, these programs bring in an additional $1.50 to $2.57
> in federal funds.
> * Everyone in the state will feel the pain if these programs are cut -
> we will pay more local taxes, we will be subject to more infectious
> diseases, and our fellow citizens will experience more severe illnesses
> that will prevent them from being productive taxpayers.
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> Texas Needs a Prescription for New Revenue
> * Texas’ tax structure fails to meet the needs of the 21st century
> Texas economy
> * Texas relies too heavily on sales taxes which falls too heavily on
> the shoulders of low and middle-income working families and produces an
> inadequate level of revenue
> * Texas’ tax system is not fair and here are a few reasons: our sales
> tax fails to cover most business and professional services; many
> businesses can avoid paying required taxes by failing to fully report the
> value of their property; many businesses avoid paying corporate franchise
> taxes by organizing under certain legal structures.
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