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RAISE REVENUE.
REBUILD NEW YORK STATE.

COVID-19 has made deep societal inequities even worse.

WHILE NEW YORK LOST MORE THAN THREE MILLION JOBS,

3,671,729

Initial unemployment claims, March - November, 2020
NYS NUMBERS

THE ULTRAWEALTHY ARE GETTING EVEN RICHER.

Over $81 Billion

Aggregate growth in wealth for NY billionaires
  • 32 Billionaires saw their wealth go up by 10% or more. 
  • 141 New York billionaires have grown their total wealth to over $600 billion.
  • The richest New Yorker, Mike Bloomberg, saw his wealth rise by 6.8 billion during the pandemic.
MORE INFO FROM FORBES

MIDDLE-CLASS AND LOW-INCOME NEW YORKERS PAY HIGHER TAX RATES THAN BILLIONAIRES & MULTI-MILLIONAIRES.

  • Top 1% pays less than low-income and middle-class

  • New York is 44th in the nation in tax fairness

  • Billionaire wealth up 1,130% from 1990–2020

  • Billionaire taxes down 79% from 1980–2018

Total State and Local Taxes in New York as a Share of Family Income

FAIR TAXES ADDRESS EXTREME INCOME INEQUALITY

$74,510,406

Average annual income of the top .01%

$2,202,480

Average annual income of the top 1%

$49,617

Average annual income of everyone else
(the bottom 99%)

Learn More - Watch Ron Deutsch from the NYS ALF-CIO explain the issues:


There are commonsense proposals that can raise revenues from our state's wealthiest.

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