Lets organize together for:
Progressive taxes for District residents, REDUCE the tax rate for the working class majority, and RAISE it for the top 5% ($227,000 and above family income), tax fairness and more revenue to better meet essential needs…truly affordable housing for our majority, child care, first rate neighborhood schools…Now the DC tax structure has the top 1% income bracket of families, averaging $3 million/year, paying a lower rate than the bottom 99% of DC families* A modest hike in DC millionaire's taxes will generate $ hundreds of millions in revenue, MD has raised their taxes, why can't DC? Obama says he will repeal Bush's tax breaks for the wealthy, why can't our DC Democrats in charge do the same here? (Of course we can't expect Republican Schwartz and "independent" Republican Catania to act since they have long refused to implement tax fairness)
Ending poverty as we know it Bring the 30% poverty rate of DC children down to zero, create green collar jobs for our youth: Raise the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefit to above poverty level, provide substance abuse treatment for all in need, job training for 21st Century Jobs. Fire Gandhi now! Reorganize the Office of Tax and Revenue to truly serve the majority of DC residents. Get the tax cheaters who are falsely claiming out-of-DC residency to pay DC income taxes!
Eco-Action and Health:
Immediate action to curb the childhood asthma epidemic and huge Metro DC carbon emissions driving global warming. A major source of both is traffic congestion especially from commuters, producing air pollution which triggers childhood asthma and other health problems for all residents. Lower Metro fares, not raise them as WMATA recently did. Students should ride free, just as in London! Start planning now for a DC Congestion Charge to make this possible. For more information go to: http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org//pubs/pubs.php?annc_id=257§ion_id=8
Keeping Public Property Public and DC Public Schools & Libraries open:
No more real estate sweetheart giveaways or handouts for billionaires – Stop taxpayer-funded subsidies for stadiums!"
More Democracy, not Less!
Reverse the erosion of democracy (e.g., school governance, lack of budget transparency) being pushed by our Mayor.
"A more just DC, a better life for all"
~ David Schwartzman, Candidate for DC Statehood Green Party
Your feedback, ideas, want to volunteer?
Contact information: dschwartzman@gmail.com
202-829-9063
Mail contributions to:
Committee to Elect David Schwartzman
1634 Montague St NW
Washington DC 20011
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Remember, You have 2 votes for At-Large Council in November. DC Statehood Green Candidates do not take money from powerful developers, real estate lobbies or from other corporations. Democrats and Republicans do.
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* The Top 1% pays 5.4% of their income in DC taxes (including the benefit of the federal deduction offset) while the bottom 99% pays 8.0%.
While the bottom 20%, with an average income of $12,400, pays the highest percentage of their income in sales
and property taxes compared to the top 80%, because of the benefit of the DC Earned Income Tax Credit,
this lowest income bracket's effective tax rate is now roughly equal to the top 1% (latest ITEP study).
- David Schwartzman's Biography
Professor, scientist, ecologist, human rights and peace activist, and fair tax advocate... David Schwartzman brings many facets to the table.
- Schwartzman gets the highest grade at recent debate
Loose Lips write, Mike Debonis, Grades the At-Large Candidates!
- Schwartzman answers the hard questions...
At-Large candidate surveys by David Schwartzman
- Who pays what in DC taxes, where is the tax base?
Our DC taxes privilege the wealthy at the expense of the majority, while our real tax base could improve the quality of life for all. "To whom much is given, much more is required," The Parable of the Faithful Servant, Gospel of Luke 12:35-48. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" Mark 10:25. A progressive DC tax structure, "tough love for the rich", would surely grease the eye of the needle for DC millionaires.
- Create Green Collar Jobs for our Youth with Apprenticeship Programs in DC public high schools!
A real future for our youth!
- Newsflash!
Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission. A BLACK DC MAN DOESN'T LIVE AS LONG AS A MAN IN INDIA
- Income Inequality and Life Expectancy in the District
Income Inequality and Life Expectancy in the District
."Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission" Progressive taxation is one big way to reduce these inequities.
- Fenty is anti-worker, anti-community, anti-democracy
I applaud the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO for their forceful opposition to our Mayor's policies ! For far too long our local Democratic leadership has taken working people for granted, triangulating them, offering only crumbs while implementing anti-working class policies.
- Why supporting McKinney/Clemente in DC will help defeat McCain, and prepare us for the challenges ahead.
(Or, why waste your vote on a winner (Obama will get DC's 3 electoral votes) when you can help build the national party of peace and justice, the Green Party of the United States)
- Confronting the crisis of everyday life in our community
A special message to all voters from David Schwartzman.
- Statehood Versus Voting Rights
Why Statehood and not just voting rights will get DC residents to the place they need to be and deserve -- one without the stranglehold of Congress.
- My testimony at the Council Hearing concerning the firing of Grayce Wiggins, Rent Administrator
I join TENAC and tenants from around DC in vigorously protesting the unwarranted firing of Grayce Wiggins, Rent Administrator.
- Reopen Franklin Shelter Now!
All residents of our community who uphold the human right to shelter should come out now in solidarity with the homeless and demand that Franklin Shelter be reopened immediately!
- My plan for DC budget, services during fiscal meltdown
Cut corporate welfare, increase revenue and funding for essential programs!
- David Schwartzman responds to reversal of Schools Takeover Referendum
Testimony before DC's Board of Elections and Ethics in June 2007 about the Schools Takeover Referendum reversal.
- Hope for D.C. Public Schools
An outstanding article that goes to the root causes of why so many DC children don't do well in school. This is the reality that is not on the agenda of the Fenty/Rhee regime, but should be. Eliminate child poverty!
- My testimony at the Council Hearing on the Mayor's FY 2009 Budget Gap-Closing Proposal
We can avoid hurtful budget cuts in FY2009 and better meet the needs of our working class majority by using the rainy day contingency fund, cutting corporate welfare and making DC taxes both progressive and more capable of generating essential revenue.
- My testimony about Peter Nickles, Acting Attorney General
Peter Nickles is unfit to become DC’s Attorney General. He should not be confirmed.
- Testimony about DC's Budget Shortfall
DC's CFO Ghandi says the District is due for a 130 million dollar shortfall in 2009. Schwartzman calls upon the Council to compel the wealthy to pay their fair share to help alleviate the financial pressure.
- A Message from an ANC Commissioner who attended the Ward 3 Dems/ Ward 4 At-Large Candidates Forum
ANC Commissioners are giving their support to David.
- Fix Our Schools Coalition Endorses Schwartzman
Coalition of school advocates choose David for At Large.
- My testimony to the Committee on Human Services, October 31, 2008
All residents of our community who uphold the human right to shelter should come out now in solidarity with the homeless and demand that Franklin Shelter be reopened immediately!
- DC’s Budget is Short-changing those most in need, Our Majority!
Where is the Money? Where isn't the Money?
- Another DC is Possible!
Why does the District of Columbia have such a high poverty rate, low life expectancy for its majority, and huge income gap between the wealthy and the rest of its community? Who is the FEDERAL City Council? More on Structural Adjustment Programs as a major cause of Poverty
