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THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Henry
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Request for Federal Action - Avoiding Sequestration
FOR the purpose of expressing the Baltimore City Council's support for allowing Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy to expire, while balancing the Federal budget in a way that will create jobs and strengthen our communities, and calling upon Congress to draft or pass, and the President to sign, legislation that would do so.
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WHEREAS, the United States government is currently confronting major decisions regarding our nation's budget and fiscal policies.
WHEREAS, the American economy continues its slow and inadequate recovery from the Great Recession; twenty million people want to work full time but cannot; unemployment stubbornly remains at 8 percent; and a weak economy undermines the nation's social fabric and deprives future generations of the opportunity to live rich and fulfilling lives.
WHEREAS, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are central to the vitality of the middle class and keep millions of Americans out of poverty; and federal investments in education and infrastructure are essential to the nation's future prosperity.
WHEREAS, sequestration the technical term for mandating painful cuts to every area of the 2013 budget inevitably shifts costs onto states and municipalities, which, unlike the federal government, cann...
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