Honor American working people: continue reduced payroll taxes, and allow Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy to end with 2012.
Why is this important?
In a state with one of the highest rates of unemployment in the U.S., I have seen family, friends and neighbors struggle since 2008, enduring lowered wages, lost benefits, housing foreclosures, and too often losing hope for the future. People who have suffered the most from the excesses of the Bush years deserve a break and some basic fairness - we have no more left to give, and it is time for those at the top of our economy to share the burden
