They’re just talking about talking and not doing anything.
(02/07/12) Occupy protesters briefly disrupted a state budget hearing at the State Capitol Monday. They said they're angered by inequities in the tax system. In Albany, Karen DeWitt reports.
About
two dozen Occupy demonstrators chanting, “hey you, millionaires, pay you’re fair
share!", unfurled banners at a legislative budget hearing on taxes. They
held a brief microphone check denouncing the state’s tax policies, then left.
Occupier
Stefan Fink says he’s unimpressed by recent actions by Governor Cuomo and the legislature
to renew a temporary tax surcharge on the rich and says more basic inequalities
need to be addressed.
“They’re
just talking about talking and not doing anything,” said Fink.
After
the disruption, which lasted less than five minutes, lawmakers calmly resumed
the hearing, which featured testimony by the state tax commissioner.
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