Sister Anne Keefe lays out the path to righteous taxation in her opinion piece in today’s Projo.

The state budget is a matter of priorities. When Governor Carcieri made his proposed 2007 state budget, he chose the priorities of a few over the struggles of the many Rhode Islanders who face increasingly hard times.

The governor proposed a budget that pits our children against our elders, education against health care and community mental-health services, and state employees against the people they serve. He chose to demand that working and low-income Rhode Islanders pay a higher share of our social investments than our state’s wealthiest individuals, by cutting critical services and programs that these families rely on.

Now members of the General Assembly are wrestling with the governor’s budget proposals. Which priorities will they choose?

The Emergency Campaign for Rhode Island’s Priorities calls on the Assembly to make a choice that rejects the governor’s skewed priorities, by restoring cuts to human-service-program beneficiaries, to community-based service providers, and to state workers and the services they provide to all of us. … — read more

It’s probably time to mobilize myself down to the state house and testify, or at least cheer for the brave Senators who will stand up and oppose these tax cuts for the wealthy.