National Day of Action - Shoreline / Edmonds
Sunday, April 20, 2025
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| Local citizens with handmade signs line Aurora in Saturday's protest Photo by Mike Remarcke |
Locals rally to protest cuts, be builders of hope
More than 600 people rallied on Aurora Avenue North at the Shoreline/Edmonds line on Saturday, April 19, 2025 to protest against President Trump's attempts to curtail basic rights and cut funding for essential programs and services that so many in our state rely on.
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| Signs were personal Photos by Claudia Meadows |
With short notice to plan, the crowd was expectedly smaller than the Hands Off! rally earlier this month, but those who turned out not only waved signs in support of seniors, veterans, children, LGBTQ+, immigrants, and numerous treasured institutions and values, but took action to fill a need made worse by recent cuts - collecting food donations for the local Hopelink food pantry.
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| With mobility issues, you have to arrive early Photo by Mike Remarcke |
Referred to as "A National Day of Action," the Saturday event was initiated by the group 50501, whose slogan is "50 Protests. 50 States. 1 Movement."
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| Donations for Hopelink collected at the protest Photo from Everyday Activists |
A carload of food and household necessities was collected for Hopelink - roughly 13 bags and boxes!
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300 people! That's terrific and so encouraging that people are waking up and defending our Constitution and democracy!
Do these people have any idea of how indebt the country is now? How about coming up with ideas of how we can balance the budget with no cuts to anything.
How about Elon and Donnie and their buddies pay fair share of taxes - personal and corporate. Closed loop holes. Raise limit on income that can be taxed for social security. Not sound untold millions on sending immigrants out of the country without due process. I can go on and on.
Of course there are many ideas of how to save money and/or balance budgets. On the revenue side, fair taxes - remove the advantages for the incredibly rich on corporate and personal taxes (sorry Elon, Donnie, etc.). Increase social security taxes on income greater than currently allowed. A greater federal inheritance tax on mega fortunes (or was that MAGA fortunes). On the savings side - let's start with not spending millions and millions of dollars to deport, without due process, people in military jets and paying other countries to jail them - again without process. Stop spending enormous sums for perfomrative, non effective miltiary presence on our own borders. Stop sending billions of dollars of lethal weaponry to countries who slaughter innocents. Stop paying the "Trump" tax on his golf and travels where he uses his own company owned faciltiies, and the tax payers are charged exorbitant prices. The list goes on and on and on. And we can tackle fiscal bankruptcy. Unfortunately, we are now proving to be morally and ethically bankrupt and that is far harder to fix.
Thank You Shoreline Area News for great photos & article! 🗽💙🇺🇲🕊️🦅
If we leveled out the federal tax field for the 1 percent, we could even educate our kids and have health care too! I'm all for waste cuts but our basic needs are being eliminated. Trickle down economics does not work except for the very rich. And we're being lead into a possible recession - or maybe worse - so that's better than the rich being taxed at a fair level? Don't forget that's it's our taxes that support the infrastructure that the Amazon and others businesses need to operate within.
Got to stop the spending at some point. Glad DOGE is taking a look. No more DEI spending, wasteful spending on other countries, grants to colleges who aren’t grateful and proudly American institutions. This all makes sense. Can’t keep spending.
How about not give benefits to illegal immigrants? Maybe Biden should foot the bill for the deportations.
Look at all this energy being focused on DC thousands of miles away, while our government in Olympia is voting this week to make everything in our state more expensive because of their fiscal mismanagement, fueled by leftist extremism. I don't hear a peep of concern from the same people about the increased costs of housing, groceries, and transportation that are on the way because of failed state policies.
Easy-have billionaires pay their fair share. Problem solved.
Where are You?
How bout Bezos and Musk pay taxes?
The average income tax rate in 2022 was 14.9 percent. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 25.9 percent average rate, nearly eight times higher than the 3.3 percent average rate paid by the bottom half of taxpayers.
The top 1 percent’s income share rose from 22.2 percent in 2020 to 26.3 percent in 2021 and its share of federal income taxes paid rose from 42.3 percent to 45.8 percent.
The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.7 percent of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.3 percent
Where is the equity?
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