Howie Hawkins Campaigns for a Green New York
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Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for New York governor, addressed a crowd at the Flying Squirrel Community Space on April 10. Topics included environmental and energy issues, education, labor, minimum wage and health care.
“The current program of public austerity and tax cuts for the wealthy is not working.” Since 1994, New York has given over $7 billion to selected companies. Those companies have cut 175,000 jobs. Some of those jobs have been moved to nearby Ontario, Canada because it is less expensive for employers to pay their slightly higher taxes than to pay for private insurance in New York.
The party supports single-payer health care, progressive taxation, a tax on financial transactions, and renewable energy including a ban on fracking.
